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Thomas Erastus

1524 - 1583

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Thomas Erastus (original surname Lüber, Lieber, or Liebler; 7 September 1524 – 31 December 1583) was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses (later reduced to 75) in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians should be punished by the State, and that the Church should not withhold sacraments as a form of punishment. They were published in 1589, after his death, with the title Explicatio gravissimae quaestionis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Erastus has received more than 103,110 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Thomas Erastus is the 549th most popular physician (down from 535th in 2019), the 469th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 465th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Erastus ranks 549 out of 726. Before him are Nikolay Gamaleya, Łucja Frey, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Franz Josef Ruprecht, Antonius Musa, and Jeffrey Ullman. After him are Serenus Sammonicus, Mustafa Barghouti, Thomas Francis Wade, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Erik Adolf von Willebrand, and Oswaldo Cruz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1524, Thomas Erastus ranks 15. Before him are Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Rani Durgavati, François Hotman, Plautilla Nelli, Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg, and Martin Guerre.  Among people deceased in 1583, Thomas Erastus ranks 19. Before him are Antoinette de Bourbon, Juan de Garay, Humphrey Gilbert, Zacharias Ursinus, Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels, and Jacques Pelletier du Mans.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Thomas Erastus ranks 469 out of 1,015. Before him are Hermann Barrelet (1879), Otto Stich (1927), Alexander Frei (1979), Madeleine Berthod (1931), Severino Minelli (1909), and Conrad Grebel (1498). After him are Carlo Clerici (1929), Arnold Koller (1933), Kurt Furgler (1924), Martin Suter (1948), Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (1963), and Marguerite Bays (1815).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Thomas Erastus ranks 17. Before him are Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Adolf Meyer (1866), Wilhelm His Sr. (1831), and Paolo Macchiarini (1958). After him are Daniel Mojon (1963).

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