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Joachim Vadian (November 29, 1484 – April 6, 1551), born as Joachim von Watt, was a Swiss Humanist and scholar and also mayor and reformer in St. Gallen. General view showing Grossmünster church. ... Events April 24 - A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle with the intent to conclude the struggle known as the War of Austrian Succession - at October 18 - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh Building of... November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria Births January... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... Events Russia, Reforming Synod of the metropolite Macaire, Orthodoxy: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav ) Major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England. ... Humanism is an active ethical and phylosphical approach to life focusing on human solutions to human issues through rational arguments without recourse to a god, gods, sacred texts or religious creeds. ... A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline. ... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ... St. ...

Vadian was born in St. Gallen into a family of wealthy and influential linen merchants. After having gone to school in St. Gallen, he moved to Vienna at the end of 1501, where he took up studies at faculty of arts the university, in particular under Conrad Celtis. In Vienna, he changed his name to "Joachimus Vadianus"; like so many other humanists, he preferred a Latin name to express his admiration for the classic masters. He evaded the outbreak of the bubonic plague of 1506/07 by moving to Villach where he worked as a teacher and studied music. A study trip through northern Italy brought him to Trent, Venice, and Padua, where he met the Irish scholar Mauritius Hibernicus. St. ... Torn linen cloth, recovered from the Dead Sea Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... Events Alexander becomes King of Poland. ... University of Vienna, main building, seen from Beethovens apartment The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien) in Austria was founded in 1365 by Rudolph IV and hence named Alma mater Rudolphina. ... Bubonic plague is an infectious disease that is believed to have caused several epidemics or pandemics throughout history. ... Events Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa. ... Events The western continent is named America on the maps of Martin Waldseemüller. ... Villach (Slovenian Beljak) is the second largest city in Carinthia in the south of Austria, on the river Drau (Slovenian Drave) . It currently has 57,646 inhabitants. ... Trent is the name of several places: Trento in Italy Trent, Texas, USA Trent, South Dakota, USA Also: River Trent in the UK Trent jet engine family manufactured by Rolls-Royce plc Trent University, a liberal arts university located in Peterborough, Ontario. ... Venice (Italian Venezia), the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). ... Location within Italy Tronco Maestro Riviera: a pedestrian walk along a section of the inland waterway or naviglio interno of Padua The city of Padua (Lat. ...

In 1509 completed his studies with the degree of Master of Arts and returned for a short while to St. Gallen, where he studied the scriptures in the library of the abbey of St. Gall. He returned to Vienna, where he had some success as a writer. From 1512 on, he held the chair of poetry at the university of Vienna—he had gained some reputation as the author of Latin poems. In 1513, he visited Buda, and the following year, he was named poeta laureatus by emperor Maximilian I. In 1516, he was even named a Dean of the University of Vienna. Events February 2 - Battle of Diu took place near Diu, India. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... The Abbey of St. ... Events April 11 - Battle of Ravenna. ... Bust of Homer, one of the earliest European poets, in the British Museum Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-20, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Events January 20 - Christian II becomes King of Denmark and Norway. ... Buda is the western part of Budapest on the bank of the Danube. ... The Holy Roman Emperor was, with some variation, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, the predecessor of modern Germany, during its existence from the 10th century until its collapse in 1806. ... Emperor Maximilian I Maximilian I of Habsburg (March 22, 1459 - January 12, 1519) was Holy Roman Emperor Life and reign in the Habsburg hereditary lands Maximilian was born in Vienna as the son of the Emperor Frederick III and Eleanore of Portugal. ... Events March - With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I. July - Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ...

In the following years, Vadian studied medicine and sciences, in particular geography and history under Georg Tannstetter called Collimitius. In 1517, he was graduated as a doctor of medicine, and subsequently moved back to his hometown, St. Gallen. On that voyage, he visited also many of his humanist acquaintances in Leipzig, Breslau, and Cracow. In 1518, he climbed the Pilatus mountain near Lucerne, the first documented ascent to its top. Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining health and restoring it by treating disease. ... History Forums - History is Happening -Discuss all historical topics, as well as current events, in an academic setting. ... Events January 22 - Battle of Ridanieh. ... The Medicinæ Doctor or Doctor of Medicine (M.D. or D.M.) is a doctorate level degree held by medical doctors. ... Map of Germany showing Leipzig Leipzig [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Polish; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... Wrocław. ... Motto: none Voivodship Lesser Poland Municipal government Rada miasta Kraków Mayor Jacek Majchrowski Area 326,8 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 757,500 (2004 est. ... Events A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola. ... Mount Pilatus is a mountain near Lucerne, Switzerland. ... Lucerne (German: Luzern) is a city in Central Switzerland with a population of 60,274 (31 December 2003), capital of the canton of Lucerne. ...

In St. Gall, he was appointed city physician and on August 18, 1519, he married Martha Grebel, the sister of Conrad Grebel who would later become a leading figure of the Anabaptist movement. In 1521, he succeeded his father Leonard, who had died on December 20, 1520, as a member of the city council. The beginning of the Reformation in Switzerland (he was a friend of Huldrych Zwingli) made him, who had never had a theological schooling, study ecclesiastic texts. From 1522 on, he sided with the new, reformed interpretation and henceforth was its most important proponent in St. Gallen. When he was elected mayor of the city in 1526, he led the conversion of St. Gallen to Protestantism, and managed to maintain that new state even after the victory of the Catholic cantons in the Second war of Kappel. Vadian wrote several theological texts after 1522, helping disseminate the reformatory views. August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events March 4 - Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico. ... Conrad Grebel (ca. ... Anabaptists (re-baptizers, from Greek ana and baptizo; in German: Wiedertäufer) are Christians of the so-called radical wing of the Protestant Reformation. ... Events January 3 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther. ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 18 - King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde. ... Huldrych Zwingli was elected priest of the Great Minster church in Zürich in 1518. ... Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli (January 1, 1484 – October 10, 1531) was the leader of the Swiss Reformation and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches. ... Events January 9 - Adrian Dedens becomes Pope Adrian VI. February 26 - Execution by hanging of Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan under orders of conquistador Hernán Cortés. ... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Events January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. ... Protestantism is a movement within Christianity. ... The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The second war of Kappel (Zweiter Kappelerkrieg) was an armed conflict in 1531 between the protestant and the catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the reformation in Switzerland. ...

In his testament, he donated his large private library to the city. His collection became the nucleus of the cantonal library of St. Gallen, which is named "Vadiana". St. ...

Selected works

• Vadian: De poetica et carminis ratione liber, Vienna 1518. A comprehensive work on the history of literature.
• Vadian: Grosse Chronik der Äbte des Klosters St. Gallen, St. Gallen 1529. A history of the abbots of the abbey of St. Gallen.
• Vadian: Epitome trium terrae partium, Asiae, Africae et Europae..., Zurich 1534. A world atlas (one of the first to include America).
• Vadian: Aphorismorum de consideratione eucharistiae libri VI, St. Gallen 1535. A theological treatise arguing for the reformed interpretation of the eucharist as a symbolism.

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References

• Jehle, M. & Jehle, F.: Vadian der Reformator, ch. 4 in Kleine St. Galler Reformationsgeschichte, St. Gallen, 1977. ISBN 3-859-93012-5. In German.
• Wenneker, E.: Vadian, Joachim, in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, vol XII; Verlag Traugott Bautz, Herzberg 1997. ISBN 3-883-09068-9. In German.

External links

• Vadiana.
• Description of Vadian's world atlas.
• A genealogy; Joachim Vadianus appears in generation 14.