SIMLER, JOSIAS. - Swiss humanist, b. 6 Nov. 1530 at Cappel, d. 2 July 1576 at Zurich. He studied Protestant theology at Zurich, Basel and Strasbourg, was a collaborator of Bullinger and founded the Reformed church of Zurich. In 1552 he became professor of New Testament exegesis at the University of Zurich.

Besides two biographical works on the two reformers Peter Martyr Vermigli and Bullinger, he published De aeterno Dei filio et de Spiritu Sancto libri IV, against the anti-Trinitarians. He also translated several works of Bullinger into Latin. Particular fame, however, was given him above all by the writing De republica Helvetiorum, in 2 books, published in the year of his death, which was until the beginning of the nineteenth century the best-known manual of Swiss public law, appreciated also by foreigners, and the Assertio orthodoxae doctrinae de duobus naturis Christi (1575), in which he combated the most radical heretics of his time.

Bibliography

BIBL.: G. W. Meyer von Knonau, s. v. in Realenc. für protest. Theol. und Kirche, XVIII (1906), pp. 347-51.

Silvio Furlani

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