Thomas Grynaeus (born Thomas Griner; 1512, Veringendorf – 2 August 1564

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) was a theologian, reformer and pastor.

Life

Thomas Grynaeus grew up the son of a peasant in the Veringendorf,

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. Grynaeus's uncle

Simon Grynaeus Simon Grynaeus (born Simon Griner; 1493 – 1 August 1541) was a German scholar and theologian of the Protestant Reformation. Biography Grynaeus was the son of Jacob Gryner, a Swabian peasant, and was born at Veringendorf, in Hohenzollern-Sigma ...

was a school friend

Philipp Melanchthon Philip Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwartzerdt; 16 February 1497 – 19 April 1560) was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the ...

. Thomas studied

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and

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and

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and followed

Simon Sulzer Simon Sulzer (23 September 1508 – 22 June 1585) was a Reformed theologian, Reformer, and Antistes of the Basel church. Life Sulzer was born in Schattenhalb, the child of a priest. He was educated in Bern and Lucerne. The sudden death of ...

to the Bern Academy, where he served as professor of

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. He was released from his post for introducing Lutheran views of the Lord's Supper. He moved to Basel served as teacher and later prefect (1547) of the Basel Pädagogium. After the Reformation of the

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Charles II in 1556, Grynaeus became pastor in 1558 at St. Gallus' Church,

Lörrach Lörrach () is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the district seat of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, inclu ...

and superintendent in Rötteln, where he remained to his death in 1564. Thomas Grynaeus married Adelheid Steuber and had eleven children with her,''1250 Jahre Röttler Kirche,'' p. 180 including Simon Grynaeus the Younger and

Johann Jakob Grynaeus Johann Jakob Grynaeus or Gryner (October 1, 1540 – August 13, 1617) was a Swiss Protestant divine. Life Grynaeus was born in Bern. His father, Thomas Grynaeus (1512–1564), was for a time professor of ancient languages at Basel and Bern, but ...

, who succeeded his father as pastor in Rötteln.

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Biography in Melchior Adam, ''Vitae Germanorum Theologorum.'' Frankfurt, 1620.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grynaeus, Thomas 1512 births 1564 deaths Academic staff of the University of Bern Academic staff of the University of Basel Swiss Protestant Reformers 16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians Swiss Calvinist and Reformed theologians