Jerome Zanchius (February 2, 1516 – November 19, 1590) was an Italian Protestant Reformation clergyman and educator. Events 962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time A cleric ( Ancient Greek κληρικός - klērikos clergyman (pl
He was born Jerome Zanchi in Alzano Lombardo, the son of a nobleman. Alzano Lombardo is a town in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. His father died in the plague of 1528 and his mother died only three years later. At age 15 he entered the monastery of the Augustinian Order of Regular Canons, where he studied Aristotle, languages and divinity. Canons regular are members of certain bodies of Canons (priests living in community under the Augustinian Rule ("regula" in Latin and sharing their property Aristotle (Greek Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC was a Greek philosopher a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Divinity and divine (sometimes 'the Divinity' or 'the Divine' are broadly applied but loosely defined terms used variously within different faiths and belief systems — He also attended the lectures on Romans given by Peter Martyr Vermigli, the greatest of the Italian Reformers. Pietro Martire Vermigli, sometimes simply Peter Martyr ( September 8 1499 &ndash November 12 1562) was an Italian
In 1551, under growing persecution against the Reformation, he left Italy via Geneva and eventually accepted the professorship of Old Testament at the college of St. The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking Thomas in Strasbourg where he began to teach in 1553 and continued to give excellent instruction for nearly 11 years. In 1563 he left the College and pastored the Italian Protestant congregation in the Grisons in the city of Chiavenna. Finally, in 1567 Prince Frederick III (1515–1576) prevailed upon Zanchius to accept a divinity professorship in the University of Heidelberg, joining Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583). Zacharias Ursinus ( July 18, 1534, Breslau &mdash May 6, 1583, Neustadt) a sixteenth century German In the year 1568 he entered on his new duties and in the same year received a doctor's degree. He held this post for 9 years when, at the death of Fredrick III, he chose to take the pastorate of the church at Neustadt an der Haardt. Neustadt an der Weinstraße is a city located in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He remained there until his death on November 19, 1590, while on a visit to Heidelberg. Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land
Zanchius was a voluminous writer whose works include, Confession of the Christian Religion and Observation on the Divine Attributes. He is perhaps best known for his book The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination, which is still in publication today.
The following is a translation of the inscription on the headstone of Zanchius' grave:
- 'Here Zanchius rests, whom love of truth constrained
- to quit his own and seek a foreign land.
- How good and great he was, how formed to shine,
- How fraught with science human and divine;
- Sufficient proof his numerous writings give,
- And those who heard him teach and saw him live.
- Earth still enjoys him, though his soul has fled:
- His name is deathless, though his dust is dead. '
External links
- The Life and Thought of Jerome Zanchi
- Confessions of the Christian Religion (1585)PDF (369 KiB)
- Confession of the Christian Religion
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