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Albert Réville
1826 - 1906 (80 years)
Albert Réville was a distinguished French Protestant theologian, known for his 'extremist' liberal views. He is also known for being one of the first intellectuals to join the Dreyfusard cause when the Dreyfus Affair erupted in the 1890s.
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Antoine Thomas
1644 - 1709 (65 years)
Antoine Thomas was a Jesuit priest from the Spanish Netherlands, and missionary and astronomer in Qing China. His Chinese name was 安多. Early life Born in Namur, Belgium in 1644, Thomas joined the Society of Jesus in 1660 and first taught in the schools of Armentières, Huy and Tournai. Equipped with a thorough training in Mathematics and Astronomy he was sent, at his own request, as a missionary to China . After a long and difficult sea journey - passing through Goa, Siam , and Malacca - he reached Macau in 1682 just in time to observe an eclipse of the Sun .
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Josse van Clichtove
1472 - 1543 (71 years)
Josse van Clichtove or Judocus Clichtoveus Neoportuensis , was a Flemish theologian, priest and humanist. Life He received his education at Leuven and at Paris under Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples. He became librarian of the Sorbonne and tutor to the nephews of Jacques d'Amboise, bishop of Clermont and abbot of Cluny. He is best known as a distinguished antagonist of Martin Luther, against whom he wrote extensively.
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Celestyn Myślenta
1588 - 1653 (65 years)
Celestyn Myślenta was a Polish Lutheran theologian and rector of the University of Königsberg. Celestyn was the son of Mateusz Myślenta and Eufroza née Wiercinska. His father was once employed by Duke Radziwill and belonged to the Polish nobility. As a stipendiary of the duke of Prussia he studied at University Königsberg, then became Lutheran pastor in Kuty from 1581-1599.
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Sebald Heyden
1499 - 1561 (62 years)
Sebald Heyden was a German musicologist, cantor, theologian, hymn-writer and religious poet. He is perhaps best known for his De arte canendi which is considered to have had a major impact on scholarship and the teaching of singing to young boys. He wrote hymns such as "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß". It has been speculated that Heyden was the world's first true musicologist.
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Jordan of Pisa
1260 - 1310 (50 years)
Jordan of Pisa , also called Jordan of Rivalto , was a Dominican theologian and the first preacher whose vernacular Italian sermons are preserved. His cultus was confirmed on 23 August 1833 by Pope Gregory XVI and he was beatified in 1838; his day is either March 6 or August 19. His relics are in the church of Santa Caterina in Pisa.
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John Macalpine
1450 - 1557 (107 years)
John Macalpine was a Scottish Protestant theologian. Life He was born in Scotland about the beginning of the 16th century, and graduated at a Scottish university. From 1532 to 1534 he was prior of the Dominican convent of Perth; but having in the latter year been summoned with Alexander Ales and others to answer for heresy before the Bishop of Ross, he left for England. There he was granted letters of denization on 7 April 1537, and married Agnes Macheson, a fellow exile for religion; her sister Elizabeth became the wife of Miles Coverdale.
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Heinrich Alexander Stoll
1910 - 1977 (67 years)
Heinrich Alexander Stoll was the pen name used by the German writer Heinrich Joachim Friedrich Karl Hans Stoll . During the 1950s and 1960s he emerged in East Germany as a prolific author of adventure novels, historical novels and reworkings of ancient legends, along with short stories and science fiction works. There are nevertheless suggestions that the reality of his own experiences as a young man, during twelve years under Hitler followed by six years under Soviet military administration and the early years of the Ulbricht dictatorship, were a match for almost any novel.
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August Adam
1888 - 1965 (77 years)
August Adam was a German Catholic theologian. He is known for The Primacy of Love , a theological study of love which argued for a rethinking of Catholic approaches to sexuality, chastity and morality.
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George Cassander
1513 - 1566 (53 years)
George Cassander was a Flemish Catholic theologian and humanist. Life Born at Pittem near Bruges, he went at an early age to Leuven, where he was graduated in 1533. In 1541 he was appointed professor of belles-lettres at Bruges, but resigned two years later, partly from a natural desire to travel for instruction, and partly in consequence of the opposition aroused by his pro-Reformation views.
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Jacob Keller
1568 - 1631 (63 years)
Jacob Keller was a German Jesuit theologian, author, and religious instructor. Life He was born in Säckingen, Baden, Germany. After entering the Society of Jesus in 1589 and completing his studies, he taught the classics at Freiburg and was professor of philosophy and of moral and dogmatic theology at Ingolstadt. He was appointed rector of the college of Ratisbon in 1605, and of the college of Munich in 1607, a post he held until 1623. In 1628 he was reappointed to the rectorship of Munich, and was still holding the office when an apoplexy ended his life.
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John Green
1706 - 1779 (73 years)
John Green was an English clergyman and academic. Life Green was born at Beverley in Yorkshire in 1706. Having been schooled in his home town, he was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge in 1724. Green graduated B.A. in 1728 and was awarded a fellowship in 1730. He was ordained in 1731 and became vicar of Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. He was eventually made domestic chaplain to the Duke of Somerset, who was chancellor of the University of Cambridge. In 1748, the Duke died and was succeeded by the Duke of Newcastle who quickly saw to it that Green was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity, t...
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Peter Nigri
1434 - 1490 (56 years)
Peter Nigri , known also as Peter George Niger , was a Dominican theologian, preacher and controversialist. Life He studied at different universities and entered the Dominican Order in 1452 at Eichstätt, Bavaria. After his religious profession he took up philosophy and theology at Leipzig, where he also produced his first literary work De modo praedicandi . In 1459 he defended publicly in Freiburg a series of theses so successfully that the provincial chapter then in session there sent him to the University of Bologna for advanced courses in theology and canon law.
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Joseph F. Merrill
1868 - 1952 (84 years)
Joseph Francis Merrill was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1931 until his death. Merrill was a key figure in the development of the Church Educational System in the early twentieth century. He served as the sixth Commissioner of Church Education from 1928 to 1933. Prior to his service as commissioner, he played a significant role in the creation of the LDS Church's "released time" seminary system. His tenure as commissioner also saw creation of the Institutes of Religion and the transfer of nearly all the remaining church schools to control of the states they resided in.
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Jean Vendeville
1527 - 1592 (65 years)
Jean Vendeville was a law professor and a bishop of Tournai. Life Vendeville was possibly born in Lille, the son of Guillaume Vendeville and Marie Des Barbieux. He went to school in Menin, and from the age of fifteen in Paris, where he studied law, beginning a legal practice in Arras. In 1551 he married Anne Roelofs, of Leuven, and in 1553 he obtained a doctorate in laws from the University of Leuven. In 1562 he was appointed professor of law at the newly founded University of Douai. He was influential in rallying secular support for the first establishment of diocesan seminaries in the Low Countries, and for the establishment of a Jesuit college at Douai.
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Nicolas Ysambert
1560 - 1642 (82 years)
Nicolas Ysambert was a French, Roman Catholic theologian, and lifelong teacher at the Sorbonne. Life Born at Orléans, Ysambert studied theology at the Sorbonne and was made a fellow of the college in 1598. Thenceforth he professed theology with such success as to attract public attention.
Go to ProfileViatora Coccaleo was an Italian Capuchin theologian. Works For a time he was lector in theology. Among his works are:"Tentamina theologico-scholastica" ;"Tentaminum theologicorum in moralibus Synopsis" ;"Instituta moralia" .His defence of papal supremacy, "Italus ad Justinum Febronium" , is one of the principal apologies against Febronius. Besides writing several works against Jansenism, he took part in the discussion concerning the devotion to the Sacred Heart and the sanctification of Holy Days, made famous by the Synod of Pistoia , and published:"Riflessioni sopra l'origine e il fine della divozione del S.
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Lancelotto Politi
1484 - 1553 (69 years)
Lancelotto Politi was an Italian Dominican canon lawyer, theologian and bishop. Historians and theologians generally have regarded Catharinus as a brilliant eccentric. He was frequently accused of teaching false doctrines, yet always kept within the bounds of orthodoxy.
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Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld
1810 - 1884 (74 years)
Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld was a German Lutheran theologian and preacher. Life The son of a carpenter, he attended secondary school in Aschersleben and Dessau and studied theology in Halle with Carl Ullmann and the historian Heinrich Leo.
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George Gobat
1600 - 1679 (79 years)
George Gobat was a French Jesuit theologian. Life He entered the Society of Jesus, 1 June 1618. After teaching the humanities he was professor of sacred sciences at Fribourg, Switzerland , and of moral theology at the Jesuit college in Halle, Belgium . He then was at Munich , rector at Halle , and professor of moral theology at Ratisbon . He was rector at Fribourg , and professor of moral theology at Constance , where he was also penitentiary of the cathedral, a post he retained until his death.
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Gustav Anrich
1867 - 1930 (63 years)
Gustav Anrich was a German church historian from Alsace, who served as rector of both the University of Strasbourg and the University of Tübingen . He was a leading expert on the history of early Christianity and its relation to and influence by ancient mystery religions and the emergence of the cult of saints. He was also noted for his work on the history of the Reformation in Alsace. In his last years, he concerned himself with the history of the University of Strasbourg and Alsace more broadly, but he died before he could complete his work on the university's history.
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Clemens Alois Baader
1762 - 1838 (76 years)
Clemens Alois Baader, also spelled Klement Alois Baader or Klemens Alois Baader was a German Roman Catholic theologian. Biography He was the son of personal physician Joseph Franz von Paula Baader . He attended a high school in Munich before he studied theology at the University of Ingolstadt, where he earned a doctor's degree in philosophy . Then he was active in the consistories of Augsburg and Salzburg. He became a canon of Freising on 25 August 1787. He was appointed a member of the Academy of sciences of his native city on 30 May 1797, then of the Erfurt Academy of Sciences of Public Utility on 10 July 1797.
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Joachim
1853 - 1921 (68 years)
Archbishop Joachim of Nizhny Novgorod Life Levitsky was born in Kiev Province, and trained at the Kiev Spiritual School , the Kiev Seminary and the Kiev Spiritual Academy, completing a doctorate in theology before being ordained a priest on 30 March 1879, his twenty-sixth birthday. In 1880 he was sent to teach at the Riga Seminary. After the death of several of his children in the 1880s, and his wife's death in 1886, he entered monastic orders, taking the monastic name Ioakim, and was elevated to the rank of archimandrite in 1893. At that same time, he was named rector of the Riga Seminary.
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Dominic Lynch
1622 - 1697 (75 years)
Dominic Lynch D.D. was an Irish Dominican friar. He made a career in Spain, and published a Latin treatise on Aristotelian and Thomist thought. Life Born in County Galway, he was son of Peter Lynch of Shruell, by his wife, Mary Skerret. He joined the Order of St. Dominic, and made his profession in the Dominican convent of San Pablo, Seville, where he lived for many years.
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John of Parma
1208 - 1289 (81 years)
John of Parma was an Italian Franciscan friar, who served as one of the first Ministers General of the Order of Friars Minor . He was also a noted theologian of the period. Life John was born about 1209 in the medieval commune of Parma in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna; his family name was probably Buralli. Educated by an uncle, chaplain of the Church of St. Lazarus at Parma, his progress in learning was such that he quickly became a teacher of philosophy . When and where he entered the Order of Friars Minor , the old sources do not say. Affò assigns 1233 as the year, and Parma as the probable place.
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Heinrich Heshusius
1556 - 1597 (41 years)
Heinrich Heshusius was a prominent third-generation German Lutheran pastor, superintendent, and polemicist. He was the second son of Tilemann Heshusius and Hanna von Bert, two well-educated and influential German Lutherans from Wesel on the lower Rhine.
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George Hodges
1856 - 1919 (63 years)
George Hodges was an American Episcopal theologian, born at Rome, New York, and educated at Hamilton College . He served at Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1881 to 1894. In 1893 he helped establish the Kingsley Association in Pittsburgh, an organization dedicated to helping immigrant workers. Afterward, he became the dean of the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The high esteem in which his religious messages are held by the reading public" resulted in a number of his books being reissued as a second edition in 1914.
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Benjamin Francis Hayes
1830 - 1906 (76 years)
Benjamin Francis Hayes was a Free Will Baptist pastor, author, principal of the Lapham Institute, and early professor at Bates College in Maine. Benjamin Hayes was born in New Gloucester, Maine in 1830 to Mary Hayes and Rev. Jesse Hayes, a Baptist minister. Benjamin Hayes graduated from Bowdoin College in 1855 and received an M.A. from Bowdoin in 1858. He then taught at the Free Will Baptist Theological Seminary at the New Hampton Institute before becoming a pastor in Olneyville, Rhode Island in 1859 and serving until 1863 when he became principal of the Lapham Institute in Scituate, Rhode Island serving until 1865, when he became a professor at Bates College.
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Veit Amerbach
1503 - 1557 (54 years)
Veit Amerbach was a German Lutheran theologian, scholar and humanist, who converted to Catholicism. Life Amerbach was born at Wembdinden in 1503. Up to age of 14 he attended in his hometown Wemding at Weth the Latin School and then went to study at the University of Ingolstadt. On July 7, 1521, he enrolled at the University of Freiburg. In the following year, he moved to the University of Wittenberg, where he met with the reformer Martin Luther and the humanist Philipp Melanchthon that shaped his future. Through the mediation of Luther in 1528 he became a teacher at the Latin school in Eisleben, where he worked with Johannes Agricola of Eisleben.
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Joseph Addison Alexander
1809 - 1860 (51 years)
Joseph Addison Alexander was an American clergyman and biblical scholar. Early life He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 24, 1809, the third son of Archibald Alexander and Janetta Waddel Alexander, brother to James Waddel Alexander and William Cowper Alexander. He graduated at the College of New Jersey with the first honor, in the class of 1826, having devoted himself especially to the study of Hebrew and other languages.
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William Jacob Holland
1848 - 1932 (84 years)
Rev William Jacob Holland FRSE LLD was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished lepidopterist, zoologist, and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister.
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Josué de la Place
1596 - 1655 (59 years)
Josué de la Place was a Reformed theologian who was born at Saumur, France. He is known as the originator of the "mediate view" of the imputation of sin, whereby original sin is considered to be an inherent depravity in man. This view is opposed to the "federalist view", whereby the God immediately imputes original sin to all men, as a consequence of Adam's sin, and thus this original sin becomes the cause of actual sin.
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Antonius Andreas
1280 - 1320 (40 years)
Antonius Andreas was a Spanish Franciscan theologian, a pupil of Duns Scotus. He was teaching at the University of Lleida in 1315. He was nicknamed Doctor Dulcifluus, or Doctor Scotellus . His Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis was printed in 1481.
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Valentin Weigel
1533 - 1588 (55 years)
Valentin Weigel was a German theologian, philosopher and mystical writer, from Saxony, and an important precursor of later theosophy. In English he is often called Valentine Weigel. He was born at Hayn, near Dresden, into a Catholic family. He studied at Meissen, Leipzig, and Wittenberg. In 1567 he became a Lutheran pastor at Zschopau, near Chemnitz. There, he lived out a quiet life, engaged in his writings.
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Friedrich Seyler
1642 - 1708 (66 years)
Friedrich Seyler , also spelled Friedrich Seiler, was a Swiss Reformed pastor and theologian from Basel, noted for his work Anabaptista Larvatus on Anabaptism. Anabaptista Larvatus He is noted for his work Anabaptista Larvatus, a major polemical work on the history of Anabaptism and a refutation of Anabaptist "errors." The first part is a history of Anabaptism in 12 chapters, influenced notably by Heinrich Bullinger and Johann Heinrich Ottius. The second "Dogmatic Part" is a defense of the dogmatic doctrines disputed by the Anabaptists from the perspective of Reformed theology. The work addr...
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Friedemann Bechmann
1628 - 1703 (75 years)
Friedemann Bechmann was a German Lutheran theologian. Life Friedemann Bechmann was born in Elleben, a small town in the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, a short distance to the north of Erfurt. His father, Andreas Bechmann, was a church pastor originally from Remda, nearby. However, his father died in 1633 and after his mother, born Anna Maria Glass, also died, in 1637, he was taken in by his mother's brother, the physician Balthasar Glass, and grew up in Arnstadt. Later he was taken on by another of his mother's relatives, Salomo Glass, and educated at the gymnasium in Gotha...
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S. B. Wilson
1783 - 1869 (86 years)
Samuel B. Wilson was a Virginia theologian and professor. He served a brief period as acting President of Hampden–Sydney College in 1847. Biography Wilson was the born in Crowders, North Carolina in 1783, the tenth child to John and Mary Wray Wilson. He was christened as Samuel Wilson, but as a young man he added a middle name and subsequently signed himself as Samuel B. Wilson. Dr. Wilson later told his grandson, William Caruthers
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Guillaume Durand
1250 - 1330 (80 years)
Guillaume Durand was a French clergyman, a nephew of a more famous Guillaume Durand, nicknamed "The Speculator". Like his uncle, he was a canonist, was rector of the University of Toulouse and succeeded his uncle as Bishop of Mende. Pope John XXII and Charles IV of France sent him on an embassy to the Sultan Orhan at Brusa, to obtain more favourable conditions for the Latins in Syria. He died on the way back, in Cyprus .
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John Lutterell
1250 - 1335 (85 years)
John Lutterell was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and university chancellor. Lutterell was a Dominican and a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. He was Chancellor of Oxford University from 1317 to 1322. However, he was so disliked by the regent masters at Oxford that he was expelled as Chancellor there.
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Carl Ritschl
1783 - 1858 (75 years)
Georg Carl Benjamin Ritschl was a German evangelist theologian, bishop and composer in Pomerania. Biography Carl Ritschl was born to Georg Ritschl von Hartenbach and Regina Christina Emminghaus in Erfurt. His father was a priest and professor at the Erfurt Ratsgymnasium. He acquired instruction in voice, keyboard and organ with the organist Johann Christian Kittel, the last student of Johann Sebastian Bach. He graduated from the gymnasium at the age of fifteen.
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Johannes Wolleb
1589 - 1629 (40 years)
Johannes Wolleb was a Swiss Protestant theologian. He was a student of Amandus Polanus, and followed in the tradition of a Reformed scholasticism, a formal statement of the views arising from the Protestant Reformation.
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F. L. Cross
1900 - 1968 (68 years)
Frank Leslie Cross , usually cited as F. L. Cross, was an English patristics scholar and Anglican priest. He was the founder of the Oxford International Conference on Patristic Studies and editor of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church . He was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1944 to 1968.
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Fritz Jahr
1895 - 1953 (58 years)
Paul Max Fritz Jahr was a German theologian, pastor and teacher in Halle. He is considered the founder of bioethics. See also Van Rensselaer Potter
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Aegidius Strauch II
1632 - 1682 (50 years)
Aegidius Strauch was a German mathematician and theologian. Life Aegidius Strauch was born in Wittenberg, the son of the Electoral Councillor Johann Strauch. As early as 1646 he attended lectures at Wittenberg University and studied in the fields of history, mathematics and oriental languages. In 1649 he moved to the University of Leipzig, where he continued his language studies and devoted himself to the study of theology. In 1650 he returned to Wittenberg, and on 29 April 1651, became a Doctor of Philosophy. He was appointed adjunct professor of the Faculty of Philosophy on October 18, 1653, and, in 1656, professor of Mathematics as substitute of Reinhold Frankenberger.
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Joannes Molanus
1533 - 1585 (52 years)
Joannes Molanus , often cited simply as Molanus, is the Latinized name of Jan Vermeulen or Van der Meulen, an influential Counter Reformation Catholic theologian of Louvain University, where he was Professor of Theology, and Rector from 1578. Born at Lille , he was a priest and canon of St. Peter's Church, Leuven, where he died.
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Peter Arkoudios
1562 - 1633 (71 years)
Peter Arkoudios was a Greek scholar of the 17th century and a Roman Catholic priest. Biography Born in Corfu in 1562/1563, Arkoudios studied at the Greek Pontifical College of Saint Athanasius in Rome and graduated with a doctorate of philosophy and theology in January 1591. He converted to Roman Catholicism from Greek Orthodoxy and was ordained a priest, showing great dedication to his new religion. Because of his knowledge and zeal he became loyal and very capable diplomat in many fine religious missions. Pope Gregory XIV and Pope Clement VII commissioned him to regulate the interests of th...
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Martin Boos
1762 - 1825 (63 years)
Martin Boos was a German Roman Catholic theologian. Life He was born at Huttenried in Bavaria. Orphaned at the age of four, he was reared by an uncle at Augsburg, who finally sent him to the University of Dillingen, where he studied under Sailer, Zimmer, and Weber. There he laid the foundation of the modest piety by which his whole life was distinguished. He had followed the extreme practices of asceticism as a penance for sin, all to no avail, as he believed, and then developed a doctrine of salvation by faith which came very near to pure Lutheranism. This he preached with great effect.
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William Gibson
1738 - 1821 (83 years)
William Gibson was an English Roman Catholic prelate. He was president of the English College, Douai from 1781 to 1790, and later became a bishop, serving as the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District from 1790 to 1821.
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Louis Ellies du Pin
1657 - 1719 (62 years)
Louis Ellies du Pin or Dupin was a French ecclesiastical historian, who was responsible for the . Childhood and education Dupin was born at Paris, coming from a noble family of Normandy. His mother, a Vitart, was the niece of Marie des Moulins, grandmother of the poet Jean Racine. When ten years old he entered the college of Harcourt, where he graduated M.A. in 1672. At the age of twenty, he accompanied Racine, who made a visit to Nicole for the purpose of becoming reconciled to the gentlemen of Port Royal. But, while not hostile to the Jansenists, Dupin's intellectual attraction was in another direction; he was the disciple of Jean Launoy, a learned critic and a Gallican.
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Johann Jacob Rambach
1693 - 1735 (42 years)
Johann Jacob Rambach, also Johann Jakob Rambach was a Lutheran theologian and hymn writer. Life Rambach was the son of Hans Jakob Rambach, a cabinet maker. For a time, he trained with his father, but then attended the University of Halle as a student of medicine, before becoming interested in theology. In 1723 he was appointed as an adjunct of the theological faculty, and in 1727, after August Hermann Francke's death, a professor. After earning a Doctor of Divinity in 1731, he was appointed the first professor of theology at University of Giessen. He was offered a professorship at the University of Göttingen, but decided to remain in Giessen.
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