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	'''Konrad Pellikan''' ([[German]]: ''Conrad Kürsner''; [[Latin]]: ''Conradus Pellicanus''; sometimes [[Anglicisation\|anglicized]] as ''Conrad Pellican''; 8 January [[1478 AD\|1478]]– 6 May [[1556 AD\|1556]]) was a German [[Protestant Reformation\|Protestant]] [[theologian]], [[humanism\|humanist]], [[Protestant reformer]] and [[Christian Hebraist]] who worked chiefly in Switzerland.		'''Konrad Pellikan''' ([[German]]: ''Conrad Kürsner''; [[Latin]]: ''Conradus Pellicanus''; sometimes [[Anglicisation\|anglicized]] as ''Conrad Pellican''; 8 January [[1478 AD\|1478]]– 6 May [[1556 AD\|1556]]) was a German [[Protestant Reformation\|Protestant]] [[theologian]], [[humanism\|humanist]], [[Protestant reformer]] and [[Christian Hebraist]] who worked chiefly in Switzerland.

			Pellikan was born on 8 January 1478 in [[Rouffach]], [[Alsace]]. His German surname, "Kurscherer" ("Kürsner") was changed to "Pellicanus" by his mother's brother, Jodocus Gallus, an ecclesiastic connected with the [[University of Heidelberg]], who supported his nephew for sixteen months at the university in 1491-1492. On returning to [[Rouffach]] 1493, he entered the Franciscan convent. There he taught ''gratis'' at the convents school in order he might borrow books from the library, and in his sixteenth year resolved to become a [[friar]]. This step helped his studies, for he was sent to [[Tübingen]] in 1496 and became a favorite pupil of the guardian of the Minorite convent there, [[Paulus Scriptoris]], a man of considerable general learning.

			He taught [[Hebrew language\|Hebrew]], [[Greek language\|Greek]], mathematics and cosmography at the Franciscan monastery of St. Katherina in [[Rouffach]], in the upper [[Alsace]]. He subsequently taught at [[Pforzheim]] and [[Tübingen]]. There seems to have been at that time in southwest [[Germany]] a considerable amount of sturdy independent thought among the [[Franciscans]]; Pellikan himself became a [[Protestant]] very gradually, and without any such revulsion of feeling as marked [[Martin Luther]]'s conversion. At [[Tübingen]] the future "[[apostate]] in three languages" was able to begin the study of [[Hebrew language\|Hebrew]]. He had no teacher and no grammar; but Paulus Scriptoris carried him a huge codex of the prophets on his own shoulders all the way from [[Mainz]].

			He learned the letters from the transcription of a few verses in the ''Star of the Messiah'' of [[Peter Georg Niger\|Petrus Niger]], and, with a subsequent hint or two from [[Johannes Reuchlin]], who also lent him the grammar of [[Moses Kimhi]], made his way through the [[Bible]] for himself with the help of [[Jerome]]'s ''Latin''. In 1501 he became the first [[Christians\|Christian]] to compose a Hebrew grammar. It was printed in 1503, and afterwards included in [[Reysch]]'s ''Margarita philosophica''. Hebrew remained a favorite study to the last.

			Pellikan became a priest in 1501 and following entered the Barfüsser convent in Basel in 1502. His four year stay in Basel was an influential event, and he kept also contributing to the works of the Basel printers during his temporary departure. In Basel he did much laborious work for [[Froben]]'s editions, and came to the conclusion that the Church taught many doctrines of which the early doctors of [[Christianity]] knew nothing. He spoke his views frankly, but he disliked [[polemic]]; he found also more toleration than might have been expected, even after he became active in circulating Luther's books. Thus, supported by the civic authorities, he remained guardian of the convent of his order at Basel from 1519 until 1524, and even when he had to give up his post, remained in the [[monastery]] for two years. In 1523, he was appointed professor for [[theology]] in the [[University of Basel]]. His lectures concerned the [[Book of Genesis\|Genesis]] and [[Salmon (biblical figure)\|Salomon]] in the [[Old Testament]]. At length, when the position was becoming quite untenable, in 1526, he followed a call from [[Zwingli]] to become a professor of [[Greek language\|Greek]] and Hebrew at the [[Carolinum, Zürich\|''Carolinum'']] in [[Zürich]]. Formally throwing off his monk's habit, Pellikan entered on a new life. Here he remained until his death on 6 April 1556.

			==Works==
			Pellikan wrote the ''Chronikon'' and also translated Hebrew works into Latin, such as [[Bahya ben Asher]]'s commentary on the [[Torah]] and the work of [[Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer]] (''Eliezer filius Hircani''), the ''Liber sententiarum Judiacarum'', in 1546.

			Pellikan's autobiography describes the gradual multiplication of accessible books on the subjects, and he not only studied but translated a vast mass of [[rabbinical]] and [[Talmud]]ic texts, his interest in [[Jew]]ish literature being mainly philological. The chief fruit of these studies is the vast commentary on the Bible (Zürich, 7 vols., 1532–1539), which shows a remarkably sound judgment on questions of the text, and a sense for historical as opposed to typological [[exegesis]]. Pellikan's scholarship, though not brilliant, was really extensive; his sound sense, and his singularly pure and devoted character gave him a great influence.

			He was remarkably free from the pedantry of the time, as is shown by his views about the use of the German vernacular as a vehicle of culture (''Chron.'' 135, 36). As a theologian his natural affinities were with Zwingli, having grown up to the views of the [[Protestant Reformation\|Reformation]], by the natural progress of his studies and religious life. Thus he never lost his sympathy with [[humanism]] and [[Erasmus]].

			Pellikan's Latin autobiography (''Das Chronikon des Konrad Pellikan'') is one of the most interesting documents of the period. It was first published by Riggenbach in 1877, and in this volume the other sources for his life are registered.

			;Early modern imprints
			* ''[https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k93003k De modo legendi et intelligendi Hebraeum].'' Strasbourg, 1504.
			* ''Quadruplex Psalterium.'' Basel, 1516.
			* ''Quadruplex Psalterium Davidis.'' Strasbourg, 1527.
			* ''Comentaria bibliorum.'' 7 volumes. Zürich, 1532-1539.
			* ''Explicatio libelli Ruth.'' Zürich, 1531.
			* ''Index bibliorum.'' Zürich, 1537.
			* ''Ruth: Ein heylig Büchlin des alten Testament, mit einer schoenen kurtzen außlegung.'' Zürich, 1555.

			;Modern editions
			* [https://books.google.com/books?id=QZ1DAAAAYAAJ&dq=Hauschronik%20Konrad%20Pellikans&pg=PP1 ''Die Hauschronik Konrad Pellikans von Rufach.''] trans. Theodor Vulpinus, Strasbourg: Heitz, 1892.
			* [https://books.google.com/books?id=iRpiAAAAMAAJ&dq=intitle%3AChronikon%20intitle%3Ades%20intitle%3AKonrad%20intitle%3APellikan&pg=PR1 ''Das Chronikon des Konrad Pellikan''], ed. Bernhard Riggenbach. Basel, 1877

			;Bibliography
			* See Erich Wenneker, "Pellikan, Konrad" in ''[[Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon]]'', vol. VII, Herzberg, 1994, col. 180-183, [http://www.bbkl.de/p/pellikan_k.shtml online article]

			==Further reading==
			* Gordon, Bruce. ''The Swiss Reformation''. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.
			* Jaumann, Herbert. ''Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit'', vol. I, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004, pg. 500, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PCNN_blc77kC&pg=PA500 online excerpt]
			* Silberstein, Emil. ''Conrad Pellicanus: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Studiums der hebräischen Sprache in der ersten Hälfte des XVI. Jahrhunderts.'' Berlin, Buchdruckerei von Rosenthal, 1900.
			* Wenneker, Erich. "Pellikan, Konrad" in ''[[Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon]]'', vol. VII, Herzberg, 1994, cols. 180-183.
			* Zürcher, Christoph. "Konrad Pellikan" in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation,'' Oxford: 1996, vol 3,
			* Zürcher, Christoph. ''Konrad Pellikans Wirken in Zürich, 1526-1556.'' Zürich, Theologischer Verlag, 1975.

			==References==

			==Sources==

			==External links==
			* [http://bpun.unine.ch/icono/JPG03/POSU3.44.jpg Image of Konrad Pellikan]
			* [http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/jancke-quellenkunde/verzeichnis/p/pellikan/index.html Entry in the "Selbstzeugnisse im deutschsprachige Raum" (Autobiographies in the German language area) project]

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	'''Konrad Pellikan''' ([[German]]: ''Conrad Kürsner''; [[Latin]]: ''Conradus Pellicanus''; sometimes [[Anglicisation\|anglicized]] as ''Conrad Pellican''; 8 January [[1478 AD\|1478]]– 6 May [[1556 AD\|1556]]) was a German [[Protestant Reformation\|Protestant]] [[theologian]], [[humanism\|humanist]], [[Protestant reformer]] and [[Christian Hebraist]] who worked chiefly in Switzerland.		'''Konrad Pellikan''' ([[German]]: ''Conrad Kürsner''; [[Latin]]: ''Conradus Pellicanus''; sometimes [[Anglicisation\|anglicized]] as ''Conrad Pellican''; 8 January [[1478 AD\|1478]]– 6 May [[1556 AD\|1556]]) was a German [[Protestant Reformation\|Protestant]] [[theologian]], [[humanism\|humanist]], [[Protestant reformer]] and [[Christian Hebraist]] who worked chiefly in Switzerland.

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