Ceporinus

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Jacobus Ceporinus , or Ceporinus for short, was the humanist name of Jakob Wiesendanger (* 1500 in Dinhard near Winterthur ; † December 20, 1525 in Zurich ). He was the author of a famous short grammar of the Greek language and companion of Ulrich Zwingli .

«Haus zur Sul»: the official residence of Ulrich Zwingli (1522–1525) and his colleagues Ceporinus (1526), Konrad Pelikan (1526–1556) and the teacher at the Grossmünsterstift , Petrus Martyr Vermilius (1556–1562) and Josias Simmler (1563–1563) 1576).

After studying in Cologne and Vienna and a stay with Johannes Reuchlin in Ingolstadt, Ceporinus had excellent knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew languages . In 1522 he got his first teaching position for Hebrew and Greek in Zurich. He passed away just a few months after his call. Despite his short lifetime, he was able to publish several books:

  • 1525 an edition of the New Testament in Basel, with a foreword by Johannes Oekolampad ;
  • the first complete edition of Pindars Epinikien north of the Alps (published posthumously in 1526);
  • 1523 in one volume the Phainomena des Aratos , the description of the world by Dionysius Periegetes and the astronomical writing Sphaira by Proclus ;
  • the short grammar of Greek, which he himself revised twice and then repeatedly reprinted, in which he also discussed the differences between the Greek dialects.

Zwingli attributed his early death mainly to overwork.

The name Ceporinus is derived from the Greek  κηπωρός (keporos "garden overseer , meadow overseer ").

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SURNAME Ceporinus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wisendanger, Jakob (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Dinhard near Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1525
Place of death Zurich