Paul Fagius [SEP] date of birth
Paul Fagius
Paul Fagius (1504 – 13 November 1549) was a Renaissance scholar of Biblical Hebrew and Protestant reformer.
Life.
Fagius was born at Rheinzabern in 1504. His father was a teacher and council clerk. In 1515 he went to study at the University of Heidelberg and in 1518 was present at the Heidelberg Disputation. In 1522 he moved to the University of Strasbourg, where he learned Hebrew and met Matthäus Zell, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito.
In 1527, he became a school master in
because of his dissolute conduct. The date of his death is uncertain.
Acworth wrote: "Orationem encomiasticam in restitutione Buceri et Fagii," printed in "Hist. Buceri", Argentor, 1562 (re Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius); the preface to Book II of Bucer's works, fol. Basil, 1577; "De visibili Romanarchia, contra Nic. Sanderi Monarchiam," London, 1622. This was written while he lived with archbishop Parker, and probably at his instigation; Nicolas Sanderus had written