List of Famous people with last name Ursinus

Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus

First Name Sophie

Last Name Ursinus

Born on May 5, 1760

Died on April 4, 1836 (aged 75)

Born in Poland, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Serial Killer

Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus was a German serial killer believed to have been responsible for poisoning her husband, aunt, and lover, and of attempting to poison her servant. Her trial led to a method of identifying arsenic poisoning.

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Johannes Heinrich Ursinus

First Name Johannes

Last Name Ursinus

Born on January 26, 1608

Died on May 14, 1667 (aged 59)

Born in Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate

Johannes Heinrich Ursinus was a learned German author, scholar, Lutheran theologian, humanist and dean of Regensburg.

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Zacharias Ursinus

First Name Zacharias

Last Name Ursinus

Born on July 18, 1534

Died on May 6, 1583 (aged 48)

Born in Poland, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Zacharias Ursinus was a sixteenth-century German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau. He became the leading theologian of the Reformed Protestant movement of the Palatinate, serving both at the University of Heidelberg and the College of Wisdom. He is best known as the principal author and interpreter of the Heidelberg Catechism.

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