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Oswald Myconius - LoveToKnow 1911 (229 words) |
 | The name Myconius seems to have been given him by Erasmus.. |
| From the school at Rottweil, on the Neckar, he went (1510) to the university of Basel, and became a good classic. |
| Myconius (1859); F. Ledderhose, in Allgemeine deutsche Biog. |
| Friedrich Myconius (432 words) |
| Lutheran divine, born on the 26th of December 1490, at Lichtenfels on the Main, of worthy and pious parents, whose family name, Mecum, gave rise to proud uses of the word as it appears in various places in the Vulgate, whereas Myconius, from the island Myconus, was a proverb for meanness. |
| In 1538 he was in England, as theologian to the embassy which hoped to induce Henry VIII on the basis of the Augsburg Confession, to make common cause with the Lutheran reformation; a project which Myconius caustically observed might have prospered on condition that Henry was allowed to be pope. |
| Though he published a good many tracts and pamphlets, Myconius was not distinguished as a writer. |
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