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Matthias Vehe known as Glirius (c.1545-1590) was a German Protestant religious radical, who converted to a form of Judaism and anti-trinitarianism, rejecting the New Testament as revelation.[1]

The identity of Vehe and the writer Glirius, who published Mattanjah (Knowledge of God, 1578) in Cologne, was established by G. E. Lessing. The history of the group including Vehe has been reconsidered by recent scholarship.[2]

Life

He was born in Ballenberg, and brought up in Königshofen. He studied at the University of Heidelberg, and at the University of Rostock under David Chytræus.[3]

He was arrested by the local Church Council with others in 1570, as a dissenter from the Calvinism being introduced by the Elector Palatine. He was at that time deacon at Kaiserslautern. Adam Neuser, later a convert to Islam, eventually escaped with help from Simon Grynæus.[4] Johannes Sylvan was executed, in 1572.[5]

He took refuge in Transylvania, teaching at the Unitarian college at Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, in Romania), where Ferenc Dávid was the head.[6][7] Others with radical Christian views there were Jacobus Palaeologus and Christian Francken.

Vehe's followers András Eőssy and Simon Péchi founded the Sabbatarians, after Dávid died in prison in 1579.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Jay I. Solomon, Loving Thy Neighbor as Thyself: The Place of Judaism in the Identity of the English Unitarians (PDF), pp. 42-3.
  2. ^ Christopher Burchill, The Heidelberg Antitrinitarians (PDF)
  3. ^ Burchill, p. 127.
  4. ^ http://www74.homepage.villanova.edu/christopher.burchill/my%20book/The%20Heidelberg%20Antitrinitarians.pdf , at p. 88.
  5. ^ Heinrich Simon von Alpen, The history and literature of the Heidelberg Catechism, and of its introduction into the Netherlands (1863), p. 34.
  6. ^ http://www.unitarius.hu/english/dates.html
  7. ^ http://www.elib.hu/01900/01911/html/index3.html
  8. ^ http://mek.niif.hu/03400/03407/html/116.html

Further reading

  • Róbert Dán (1982), Matthias Vehe-Glirius: Life and Work of a Radical Antitrinitarian with His Collected Writing

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