his friends included andré alciat, étienne dolet, guillaume scève and barthélémy aneau, and they wrote highly of his work, even helping out in practical printing tasks. their linguistic input was also of benefit to the works printed. gryphius printed suspect texts and even sheltered authors in trouble for heretical writing. étienne dolet, an academic and satirical poet, came fresh from jail in toulouse, and was burned as a heretic in 1546.