David Chytraeus
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David Chytraeus or Chyträus (26 February 1530, Ingelfingen-25 June 1600, Rostock) was a German Lutheran theologian and historian.
His real surname was Kochhafe, which in Classical Greek is χυτρα, from where he derived the Latinized pseudonym "Chyträus".
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- The Protestant Theological and Ecclesiastical Encyclopedia by John Henry Augustus Bomberger, 1860, p. 714.