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Justus Jonas

1493 - 1555

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Justus Jonas, the Elder (5 June 1493 – 9 October 1555), or simply Justus Jonas, was a German Lutheran theologian and reformer. He was a Jurist, Professor and Hymn writer. He is best known for his translations of the writings of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Justus Jonas has received more than 88,712 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Justus Jonas is the 3,490th most popular writer (up from 3,620th in 2019), the 3,582nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,505th in 2019) and the 216th most popular German Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 89k

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  • 51.58

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Das siebend Capitel Danielis, von des Türcken Gottes lesterung vnd schrecklicher morderey
1530
Memoria Lutheri pia et beata
Death and burial
1618
Das siebend Capitel Danielis
Bible, Christianity and other religions, Controversial literature
1530
Annotationes Iusti Ionae, in Acta Apostolorum
Bible, Commentaries
1524
Causae
Apologetic works, Controversial works, Council of Trent (1545-1563)
1546
Two funeral sermons on the death of Dr. Martin Luther
1883

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Justus Jonas ranks 3,490 out of 7,302. Before him are Hiratsuka Raichō, Gary Snyder, Andrejs Pumpurs, Roger Vailland, Immanuel Velikovsky, and Tim Krabbé. After him are Jonathan Littell, Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Jeff Lindsay, Rosa Montero, Mirko Kovač, and Viktor Rydberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1493, Justus Jonas ranks 14. Before him are Tansen, Clarice de' Medici, Nicolaus Olahus, Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, Yamamoto Kansuke, and George I, Duke of Pomerania. After him is Yi Gwang-sik. Among people deceased in 1555, Justus Jonas ranks 19. Before him are Oronce Finé, Heinrich Aldegrever, Gemma Frisius, Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg, Luis de Narváez, and Bartolomeo Veneto. After him are Olympia Fulvia Morata, Jan Mostaert, Hugh Latimer, Stephen Gardiner, Nicholas Ridley, and Polydore Vergil.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Justus Jonas ranks 3,582 out of 7,253. Before him are Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Jurij Brězan (1916), Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811), Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1704), Wilfried Dietrich (1933), and Kurt Aland (1915). After him are Moritz Wagner (1813), Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866), Gerald Götting (1923), Ilse Steppat (1917), Christian Schad (1894), and Franz Kaiser (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Justus Jonas ranks 216. Before him are Curt von Bardeleben (1861), Willibald Pirckheimer (1470), Herman Grimm (1828), Sophie von La Roche (1730), Johann Ernst Glück (1652), and Jurij Brězan (1916). After him are Theodor Körner (1791), Leonhard Frank (1882), Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Günter Eich (1907), Johann Heinrich Voss (1751), and Sylvia Nasar (1947).

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