GUALTHER, 0-altar (WALTHER), RUDOLF: Third artistes of the Church of Zurich; b. at Zurich Nov. 9, 1519; d. there Dec. 25, 1686. From 1538 to 1541 he studied at Basel, Strasburg, Lausanne, and Marburg, and in 1542 was appointed pastor of St. Peter in Zurich and remained in that position until his death. His sermons represented the tran sition from the free homily of the Reformers to the more artistic manner of later times. As assistant of Bullinger he rendered great services in the leader ship of the Zurich Church and in the cultivation of active relations with the Reformed Churches of all countries. In 1575 he succeeded Bullinger as ar tistes. Of his literary works may be mentioned especially his homilies and expositions of the Bible, which appeared in great number and many editions, almost yearly. He edited vols. i.-iii, of the first edition of the works of Zwingli (his father-in-law), translated more than thirty of his German writings into Latin, and prefixed an Apologia pro Ztvinglio et operum eiss editione (also published separately). Another work was Oucir>n aeu sernus ecclesiasticus, de Officio ministtrorum eccleaiaatico oratio (1548). He wrote poems on Simon Grynseus and Margaretha Blaurer (qq.v.), a work on metrics entitled De ayllabarum et carminum rtttione lz'brt; ii (1542); Arguments omnium rum Vetetas tum Non Teatamenti capitwm elegia nine conscriPta (1543); and even attempted a drama, Nttbal co»uedia sacra (1562). (Enfl>; Eors.)

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Bibliography: His letters and writings are in great part collected in J. H. Sottinger, Schola Tiguri-- CGTOlina, pp. 115 sqq., Zurich, 1664. Consult: G. R. Zimmermann, Die Zürcher Kirche 1518-1819, pp. 73-103, Zurich, 1878; ADB, x. 239; 8. M. Jackson, Huldreieh Zuringli, pp. 360-361, New York, 1903.

GUARDIAN: The usual title of the superior of a Franciscan convent.

GUASTALLINAE, gwes"tal-li'nf or -nlA. See Angelicals.

GUATEMALA. See Central America.

GUDEA. See Babylonia, VI., 3, § 3.