Symphorianus Pollio

POLLIO, Symphorianus. b. Strasbourg, date unknown, ca. 1480; d. date and place unknown. In some contemporary documents he is known as ‘Symphorianus Althiesser’, and he was called by C.H. Herford (1886, p. 36) ‘Meister Ziprian’. He was a priest at St Stephen’s Church, Strasbourg, and then at St Martin’s: at one time he was the preacher at the church of Ste Aurélie, where he followed the great Martin Bucer*. He was also interim preacher at the Cathedral. He married in 1524, but continued in office at St Martin’s until the church was pulled down in 1529. He then acted as pastor of what sounds like an unofficial church outside the city walls, ‘zu den guten Leuten’ (‘for the good people’). Five...