Jakob Ceporin

He studied at the school of Latin at Winterthur before attending the Universities of Cologne and Vienna.

Around the second half of 1523, Ceporin married Elsbeth Scherer, a former Dominican nun of the monastery of Töss.

On 14 April 1525, Ceporin was appointed as the first Reader of Greek and Hebrew at Zwingli's school of theology in Zürich.

Ceporin's short book on Greek grammar (published 1522) was reprinted in many editions and was still in use in the eighteenth century in Swiss schools.

After the fashion of the time, Wiesendanger chose the name Ceporin as the Greek equivalent of his Swiss surname (from κηπουρός "gardener").