BIBLIANDER, or more properly Theodore BUCHMANN, a learned Swiss Protestant divine, born at Bischoffzell in 1504. On the death of Zwingli he was appointed professor of theology at Zurich in 1532. Having adopted more liberal sentiments on the subject of predestination and free-will than were agreeable to his party, he was deprived of his professorship after having long discharged its duties with high reputation. He was a learned Oriental scholar, and published an edition of the Koran, to which he prefixed lives of Mahomet and his successors; together with an apologetical preface, which, in the words of Bayle, "raised a great outcry." Besides this, he published numerous works, chiefly on theology and ecclesiastical history. He died of the plague at Zurich in 1564.