[1] He was removed from school and apprenticed in a craft trade for more than a year in order to divert attention from his academic prowess, but by 1553, at the unusually youthful age of just 16, he was studying Theology with a scholarship to the University of Tübingen.

[1] Shortly afterwards ill health forced him to leave the city, and in 1562 he took up a diaconat at Vaihingen an der Enz, in the rural region to the west of Stuttgart.

On 25 October 1578, still aged only 41, he was appointed Provost of Stuttgart's Collegiate Church in succession to Wilhelm Bidenbach, which was the highest ecclesiastical office in Württemberg.

[1] During his final years Magirus was greatly troubled by "internal stones" ("Steinbeschwerden"), and he died at nearby Cannstatt where he had gone to seek relief from his illness.

[1] A remoter descendant, Conrad Dietrich Magirus, founded in 1866 a business to manufacture fire fighting equipment which grew to become, during the first half of the twentieth century, one of Germany's leading truck producers.