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Thurgau’s, 1828-’30, 2 vols.; second ed. 1889-’90; Sulzberger, Die
Reformation im Kanton Thurgau, 1872.
ft206 Hofmeister’s letters in Zwingli’s Opera, VII. 146, 289; II. 166, 348.
He subscribes himself Sebastianus Oeconomus seu Hofmeister. His last
letter is dated from Zofingen (1529), and very severe against Luther’s
writings on the sacramental controversy.
ft207 Johannes von Müller, called the German Tacitus (1752-1809);
Melchior Kirchhofer (1775-1853), who wrote valuable biographies of
the minor Reformers (Hofmeister, Haller, Myconius, and Farel), and
the fifth volume of Wirz’s Helvetische Kirchengeschichte; and
Friedrich von Hurter (1787-1865), the author of the best history of
Pope Innocent III. (1834-’42, 4 vols.). Hurter was formerly Antistes of
the Reformed Church of Schaffhausen, but became (partly by the study
of the palmy period of the mediaeval hierarchy) a Roman Catholic in
1844, and was appointed imperial counsellor and historiographer of
Austria, 1845.
ft208 Respublica Grisonum; I Grigioni; Les Grisons.
ft209 The Grisons are ignored or neglected in general Church histories. Even
Hagenbach, who was a Swiss, devotes less than two pages to them
(Geschichte der Reformation, p. 366, 5th ed. by Nippold, 1887). A
fuller account (the only good one in English) is given by Dr. McCrie, a
Scotch Presbyterian, in his History of the Reformation in Italy, ch. VI.
The increasing travel of English and American tourists to that country,
especially to the Engadin, gives wider interest to its history, and may
justify the space here given to it.
ft210 Raetia or Rhaetia, a net, is derived from Rhaetus, the mythical chief of
the oldest immigrants from Etruria, or from the Celtic rhin, Rhine,
river, and survives in the names Realta, Rhäzüns, and Reambs, i.e.
Raetia alta, una, and ampla. It was conquered under Augustus by
Drusus, 14 B.C., and ruled by a governor at Coire or Curia Rhaetorum
till c. 400. The ivy-clad tower of the episcopal palace of Coire is of
Roman origin, and is called Marsoel, i.e. Mars in oculis.
ft211 The Romansh language (to distinguish it from other Romanic
languages) has two dialects, the Ladin of the Engadin, the Albula, and
Münster valleys, and the Romansh of the Oberland, Ilanz, Disentis,
Oberhalbstein, etc. It is spoken by about 37,000 inhabitants. The whole
population of the canton in 1890 was 94,879,—53,168 Protestants and