Johannes Fries

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Tobias Stimmer: Portrait of Johannes Fries, 1568 (woodcut, Kunstmuseum Basel)

Johannes Fries (* 1505 in Greifensee , † January 28, 1565 in Zurich ), Latinized Johannes Frisius, was a Swiss Reformed theologian , educator and lexicographer .

Life

Supported and sponsored by the reformer Huldrych Zwingli , Fries studied between 1527 and 1531 at the College of the Grossmünster in Zurich. After Zwingli's death, Artes studied in Paris and Bourges from 1533 to the beginning of 1536 . After completing his bachelor's degree, he was entrusted with a teaching position at the Latin school in Basel in 1536 .

In 1537 Fries switched to the Benedictine monastery at Zurich's Fraumünster as a schoolmaster . He stayed there until 1547 and then switched to the Grossmünster School, where he worked until 1563. In 1557 the Zurich City Council appointed him canon , which gave him a benefice .

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In 1552 Fries published an introduction to music with his Synopsis isagoges musicae ; In 1561 his Annotationes appeared in Virgilii Bucolica et Georgica . He was also significantly involved (also as a translator) in the Zurich Bible . He also got Latin-German text editions by Cato, Cicero and Sulpitius Verulanus, which were specially intended for schoolchildren.

Within a decade and a half, Fries published four dictionaries based on Robert Estienne's bilingual dictionaries :

  • 1541 (together with the humanist and Zwingli supporting Peter Kolin ) the Latin-German Dictionarium Latinogermanicum,
  • 1548 the Latin-French-German Dictionariolum puerorum tribus linguis Latina, Gallica, & Germanica conscriptum,
  • In 1556 the Dictionarium Latino-Germanicum (the so-called "large frieze") and six months later
  • 1556 the novelty Dictionariolum puerorum Latinogermanicum (the so-called «small frieze»).

The "Grosse Fries" was Fries' main work and was a revision of the dictionary from 1541, which was done by himself, since Kolin had died in 1542 of the plague. The dictionary in turn formed the basis for Josua Maaler's work Die Teütsch spraach .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renato Morosoli: Kolin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 2, 2008 , accessed July 7, 2019 .