Konrad Pellikan
…Protestant theologian, humanist, Protestant reformer and Christian Hebraist who worked chiefly in Switzerland. Pellikan was born on 8 January 1478 in Rouffach, Alsace. His German surname, "Kurscherer" ("Kürsner") was changed to "Pellicanus" by his mother's brother, Jodocus Gallus, an ecclesiastic connected…