Nathan Chytraeus

Short Name: Nathan Chytraeus
Full Name: Chytraeus, Nathan
Birth Year: 1543
Death Year: 1599

Nathan Chytraeus (whose German surname was Kochhafe) was a brother of the famed theologian David Chrytaeus. He was born 15 March 1543 in Monzingen in the Lower Palatinate, where his father was preacher. After an extensive education he became a Professor at Rostock, and then Recor of the Gymnasium in Bremen, where he died 27 February 1599. Among other talents, he was a considerable poet, and also published an annotated version of Buchanan's Latin Psalm paraphrases (Herborn, 1592).

--Gottfried Lebrecht Richter, Allgemeines biographisches Lexikon alter und neuer geistlicher Liederdichter (Leipzig: Martini, 1804), p. 38. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ZvM6AAAAcAAJ


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