He adopted the name Grynaeus from the epithet of Apollo in Virgil.
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In 1541 his friend Simon Grynaeus arranged for Borrhaus a position teaching philosophy at the University of Basel, and then in 1544 he became professor of Old Testament and 1546, 1553 and 1564 served as rector.