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Jonas , Greek form of Hebrew Jonah . St. Peter's father is called Jonas and Jona (KJV) and John (RSV).

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Jonas, Justus

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Jonas, Justus (1493–1555), originally ‘ Jodocus Koch’, German Reformer. An admirer of Erasmus and M. Luther, he accompanied the latter to Worms in 1521. From 1523 to 1533 he was dean of the faculty of theology at Wittenberg and he took a leading part in the Protestant cause. He translated the German works of Luther and P. Melanchthon into Latin and the Latin works into German.

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Jonas, Peter

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Jonas, Peter (b London, 1946). Eng. administrator. Worked as extra and stagehand at Glyndebourne while student at Sussex Univ. Ass. to mus. dir. Chicago SO 1974–6, art. administrator 1976–85. Gen. dir., ENO, 1985–93. Intendant, Bavarian State Opera, Munich, from 1993. Noted for encouragement of contemp. composers and innovative prods. CBE 1992.

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