biography
| name: |
Enzinas, Francisco de
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pronunciation:
[entheenas]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1520–52)
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| biography:
| Humanist, born in Burgos, NC Spain. He studied at Louvain, taught Greek at Cambridge, went to Geneva to see Calvin, and died of the plague on his return to Strasbourg. A disciple of Luther and admirer of Melanchthon, he hellenized his name to Dryander. He wrote Breve y compendiosa institución cristiana (1540) before translating and publishing Nuevo Testamento de Nuestro Redemptor (1543), an offence for which he was jailed in Brussels. He later escaped and continued writing for the Reformation movement. He translated Livy, Lucian, and Plutarch's Lives and composed the important Historia del estado de los Paises Bajos y de la religión de España (1558) under the French form of his name, François de Chesne. His absorbing Memorias (1543–5) are autobiographical. |
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