Simon Fish
Simon Fish (* in Kent , † May 1531 in London ) was a in England acting propagandist for the Reformation and one of the first English Protestants .
Fish combined social and religious issues in his work and assisted William Tyndale in spreading the English Bible . In 1528 he penned A supplicacyon for the Beggers , a savage attack on the clergy. Fish turned to Henry VIII and demanded, among other things, the expropriation of the monasteries. The work spread quickly and was replied by Thomas More.
In 1529 he translated Henrik van Bommel's work The Sum of the Holy Scripture . He was in exile in the Netherlands several times and died of the plague as a convicted heretic shortly before his planned execution . In the television series The Tudors , Fish found his end at the stake historically incorrect as a heretic .
literature
- Ilan Rachum, Atlantis-Verlag 1991: Encyclopedia of the Renaissance , ISBN 978-3-7611-0725-6
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| SURNAME | Fish, Simon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kent |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1531 |
| Place of death | London |