Matteo Gribaldi

Matteo Gribaldi (* 1500 in Chieri, Piedmont, † September 1564 in Farges in Geneva ) was an Italian lawyer and representative of antitrinitarianism the Reformation.

Life

Gribaldi worked 1535-1545 as a lawyer at the French universities Toulouse, Cahors, Valence and Grenoble. Even in his French period, he married Georgina Carraxe, with whom he had seven children. Probably around 1542 he converted to Protestantism, however, lived outwardly further than Catholic. Since 1548 he worked at the University of Padua, where many Protestant students were enrolled from Germany and Switzerland. In the same year he witnessed the death of the affected by the Inquisition Protestant Venetian jurist Francesco Spiera what a year later published by him writing Historia de quodam, quem hostes Gospel in Italia coegerunt abiicere agnitam veritatem ( The story of one, the enemies the Gospel in Italy forced to deny the known truth ) caused. Around 1550 came Gribaldi into contact with the writings of Michel Servet and turned anti-Trinitarian positions on. In the fall of 1553 also Lelio Sozzini lived for two Montate at Gribaldi in Padua. After the execution of Servetus Michel Gribaldi was in 1554 under the pseudonym of Alphonsus Lyncurius Tarraconensis the font Apologia pro Michaele Serveto ( defense for Michel Servet ) out.

Since Gribaldi had a country seat in Farges in the Pays de Gex, he himself was often to be found in the nearby influenced by Calvinism Geneva. Here he wrote in September 1554 a written to the Italian community of Geneva font in which he first entered a publicist for the view that father and son have to be two substantial beings. A short time later he published the confession De Deo et Filio Dei, mainly in Poland and Lithuania became widespread in the following years and resulted in a transfer antitrinitarischer positions in the Reformed congregations in Poland - Lithuania. A significant role was played by a native of the Polish- Lithuanian city Gonionds student Peter Gonesius. In the spring of 1555 Gribaldi took over the support of Pietro Paolo Vergerio reputation of the Protestant -oriented Duke Christoph of Württemberg to the University of Tübingen. On the way he met Württemberg in Zurich on Heinrich Bullinger and John Calvin in Geneva, with whom he quarreled, however. Calvin was not ready to give him her hand before she would not have agreed on essential points. Calvin and his colleague Théodore Beza drew attention in the wake Christoph von Württemberg Gribaldis anti-Trinitarian positions. Gribaldi finally had to justify before the academic senate of the University of Tübingen in July 1557. To avoid the risk of execution as the alleged heretics, Gribaldi fled shortly afterwards to his country seat in Farges, where he was arrested and fixed in September 1557 by the Bernese authorities. In order to escape the threat of extradition to Tübingen, Gribaldi finally was ready to sign the confessions of the early church and so to let go of his anti-Trinitarian views. Nevertheless, he had to leave the Bernese region. Only after the death of his wife in 1558 he was allowed to return to Farges. On the return, however, the condition was linked to exercise discretion with regard to his religious views. A year later Gribaldi could work at the University of Grenoble again, but was already dismissed in the following again. In September 1564 Matteo Gribaldi died in Farges of the plague.

Historically, Gribaldi be regarded as a link between the work of Michel Servetus and the later socialization agents in Poland and Lithuania. Gribaldi took over the position taken by Michel Servet antitrinitarianism, but called differently than this for a subordinationist tritheism from.