Paul Fagius

Paul Fagius ( di Paul Büchelin; * 1504 Rheinzabern, † November 13, 1549 in Cambridge ) was a German reformer and Hebraist.

Life

Paul Fagius was born in 1504 in Rheinzabern son of a teacher and council clerk. In 1515 he began his studies at the University of Heidelberg. In 1518 he attended the Heidelberg Disputation. 1522 he moved to the University of Strasbourg, learned the Hebrew language and made ​​friends with Matthew Zell, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito.

In 1527 he became a school principal in the free imperial city Isny. Fagius participated in the Berne disputation, where he also met the reformer Ulrich Zwingli. In 1535 he returned again to the University of Strasbourg in order to devote himself to a study of theology.

1537 returned as pastor Paul Fagius to Isny ​​back. Here he learned from the Jewish grammarian and editor Elijah Levita Hebrew. Together they set up in Isny ​​a print shop. One of the works, which was published in this cooperation, the book Shemot Devarim, a altjiddisch - Hebrew- Latin- German dictionary ( Isny 1542).

In 1543 he ordered the church in Konstanz beings. The following year he took the Chair of the Old Testament and the associated parish post at the University of Strasbourg. Elector Frederick II of the Palatinate commissioned him in 1546 with the reform of the University of Heidelberg. Fagius came there but in such strong opposition that his attempt failed and he returned to Strasbourg.

With the beginning of the Counter-Reformation, the pressure grew on Paul Fagius. As a staunch opponent of the Augsburg Interim he was therefore excluded from the University and left in April 1549 Strasbourg to take up a professorship at the University of Cambridge. There he taught Hebrew philology and the interpretation of the Old Testament. After only a short period, he died in November 1549 of a fever disease.

During the Catholic Counter- Reformation in England in 1556 his remains were exhumed; in a show trial Fagius was condemned posthumously at the stake. His bones were publicly burned. In 1560 he was rehabilitated.

Works

  • Sententiae vere elegant piae (output of the Sayings of the Fathers ), Isny 1541
  • Perousch ( exegetical work on Genesis 1-4), Isny 1542 ( modified edition of Konstanz 1543)
  • Sepher Aemana ie liber veritatis fidei seu, Isny 1542
  • Sententiae morales ( edition of the books of Sirach and Tobias with Latin comment) Isny 1542
  • Precationes hebraicae ( Jewish table prayers ), Isny 1542
  • Compendaria Isagoge in linguam Hebraeam, Konstanz 1543
  • Paraphrasis Onkeli Chaldaica (Latin translation and explanation of Targum Onkelos ), Strasbourg 1546

Editorship:

  • Elias Levita: Tishbi, Isny 1541
  • Elias Levita: Methourgeman ( Chaldean Lexicon ), Isny 1541
  • Elias Levita: Hebrew grammar, Isny 1542
  • David Kimchi: commentary on the first 10 psalms, Isny 1541, Constance 1544
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