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Melchior Adam
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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MELCHIOR ADAM (d. 1622), German divine and biographer, was born at Grotkau in Silesia after 1550, and educated in the college of Brieg, where he became a Protestant. In 1598 he went to Heidelberg, where he held various scholastic appointments. He wrote the biographies of a number of German scholars of the 16th century, mostly theologians, which were published in Heidelberg and Frankfort (5 vols., 1615-1620). He dealt with only twenty divines of other countries. All his divines are Protestants. His industry as a biographer is commended by P. Bayle, who acknowledges his obligations to Adam's labours; and his biographies, though they have faults, are still useful.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Melchior Adam'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/melchior-adam.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Melchior Adam'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/melchior-adam.html. 1910.
