Impact

Flaccius' activity was absolutely remarkable. His argumentation accept usually been anesthetized over as abominable by abbey historians; about he stands at the alpha of the accurate abstraction of abbey history, and — if we except, a abundant exception, the assignment of Laurentius Valla — of hermeneutics also. No agnosticism his alive motive was to prove Roman Catholicism to be congenital on bad history and bad exegesis. Regardless of Flacius's argumentation intent, the alteration of bad history and bad comment has been admired to bodies of abounding acceptance and non-faith traditions. Hence the continuing amount of the attempt embodied in Flacius' Catalogus testium veritatis (1556; revised copy by J. C. Dietericus, 1672) and his Clavis scripturae sacrae (1567), followed by his Glossa compendiaria in N. Testamentum (1570). His appropriate formula, historia est fundamentum doctrinae, is added good accepted now than in his own day.

edit Family life

In 1545, while at Wittenberg, Flaccius affiliated a pastor's daughter. He had twelve accouchement with his aboriginal wife afore she anesthetized away, in 1564. He remarried the aforementioned year and had six (?) added accouchement with his additional wife. His son Matthias was assistant of aesthetics and anesthetic at Rostock.