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    Josias Simmler (Josiah Simler; Latin: Iosias Simlerus) (6 November 1530 – 2 July 1576) was a Swiss theologian and classicist, author of the first book...
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    modern ice axe. French-speaking climbers called this item a "baton". Josias Simler, a Swiss professor of theology at what later became the University of...
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    United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for Josias Simler (1530–76), who wrote the first reasonable advice on precautions for...
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    Wörterbuch s.v. 'Eidgenossenschaft', citing Johannes Stumpf (1550) and Josias Simler (1576, von dem regiment loblicher eidgnoschaft zwei bücher). Georg Kreis:...
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    thought the word was related to "deer" (French: cerf and Italian: cervo). Josias Simler hypothesized in De Alpibus Commentarius (1574) that the name Mons Silvius...
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    ISBN 978-3-7757-1870-7. Simler, Josias (1566). Vita clarissimi philosophi et medici excellentissimi Conradi Gesneri Tigurini a Josia Simlero Tigurin. Item...
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    Franciscus Sonnius, Dutch counter-Reformation theologian (b. 1506) July 2 – Josias Simler, Swiss scholar (b. 1530) July 11 – Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, Italian...
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    Gesner. He was buried in the Grossmünster cathedral, where his successor Josias Simler gave a funeral oration, which was published and is an important source...
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    auch neuwe, besondere und gemeine thaten bis auf das jar Christi 1546. Josias Simler von Zürich schreibt 1576 von dem regiment loblicher eidgnoschaft zwei...
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  • Switzerland, issued in 1548 at Zürich by Johannes Stumpf of that town. But Josias Simler, who was in a way his continuator, wrote all his works, theological...
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