Grynaeus

Grynaeus is the name of a Basel academic family that originally came from Veringendorf (Württemberg) and initially bore the name Grüner or Griner. In the 17th century, the family branched out to Mulhouse (Alsace), Nuremberg , Berlin and the Electoral Palatinate , in the 18th the Basel line died out.

Name bearer

• Simon Grynaeus (1493–1541), theologian and reformer
• Thomas Grynaeus (1512–1564), theologian and reformer
• Samuel Grynaeus (1539–1599), lawyer
• Simon Grynaeus the Younger (1539–1582), mathematician and physician
• Johann Jakob Grynaeus (1540–1617), theologian
• Jean Grynaeus (1685–1749 or 1754), Prussian chief court printer in Berlin
• Johannes Grynaeus (1705–1744), theologian and orientalist
• Simon Grynaeus (1725–1799) , clergyman and translator

literature

• Carl Roth: family tables of some extinct Basel scholar families . In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 16 (1917), pp. 398–401 ( digitized version )
• Kurt Guggisberg :  Grynaeus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 241 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Samuel Schüpbach-Guggenbühl: Grynaeus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .