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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 94,803 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Thomas Erastus is the 536th most popular physician (down from 454th in 2019), the 467th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 407th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Erastus ranks 536 out of 502Before him are Joseph Schröter, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Walter Reed, Akira Endo, and Eva Klein. After him are Astley Cooper, Édouard Gagnon, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Leila Denmark, Halfdan T. Mahler, and Türkan Saylan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1524, Thomas Erastus ranks 13Before him are Louise Labé, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Rani Durgavati, François Hotman, and Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg.  Among people deceased in 1583, Thomas Erastus ranks 18Before him are Andrey Kurbsky, Pirro Ligorio, Juan de Garay, Humphrey Gilbert, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, and Zacharias Ursinus.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Thomas Erastus ranks 467 out of 876Before him are Bernard Challandes (1951), Konrad Stäheli (1931), Martin Suter (1948), Viola Amherd (1962), Othmar Ammann (1879), and Georges Beuchat (1910). After him are Jakob Stämpfli (1820), Paul Martin (1901), Elizabeth Thompson (1846), Casimir de Candolle (1836), Patrick Moraz (1948), and Robert Julius Trumpler (1886).

Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Thomas Erastus ranks 14Before him are Albrecht von Haller (1708), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Adolf Meyer (1866), and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777). After him are Daniel Mojon (1963).