AUROGALLUS (GOLDHAHN), MATTHAEUS. - Lutheran philologist, b. around 1490 at Komotau (Bohemia); having come to Wittenberg (1519), he became professor of Hebrew there (1521), on the recommendation of Luther and Melanchthon; rector of the University in 1542, d. 10 Nov. 1543.

From 1520 he assisted Luther, who often mentions him in his letters, in the translation of the Old Testament, revising and emending it. From 1539 to 1541 he was assiduous at the "sanhedrin of the best of men" (J. Mathesius) who, together with Luther, were correcting his Bible, alongside Melanchthon, Bugenhagen, Jonas, Crentzinger, Ziegler, Forstemius. He published: Grammatica hebraeae chaldacaeque linguae, Wittenberg 1525; Liber de hebraeae urbium, regionum, populorum, fluminum, montium et aliorum locorum nominibus ex V. T. collectis, there 1526. Of the two works he prepared an "editio auctior", Basel 1539.

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BIBL.: L. Guilloresu, s. v. in DB, I, coll. 376, 1264 sq.; F. Schüblein, s. v. in LThK, I, col. 841; H. Grisar, Lutero (Italian trans.), Turin 1933, p. 397.

Antonino Romeo

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