Immanuel Tremellius (1510 – October 9, 1580), was an Italian Jewish convert to Christianity. Events 768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. He was known as a Bible translator.
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Life
He was born at Ferrara, and educated at the University of Padua. Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. The University of Padua ( Italian Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) located in Padua, Italy, was founded in 1222 He was converted about 1540 to the Catholic faith through Cardinal Pole, but embraced Protestantism in the following year, and went to Strasburg to teach Hebrew. Reginald Pole (1500 &ndash November 17, 1558) was an English prelate a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, and the last Roman Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation.
Owing to the wars of the Reformation in Germany he was compelled to seek asylum in England, where he resided at Lambeth Palace with Archbishop Cranmer in 1547. Lambeth Palace is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1549 he succeeded Paul Fagius as regius professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. Paul Fagius ( 1504 - 13 November 1549) was a Renaissance scholar of Biblical Hebrew. The Regius Professorship of Hebrew, founded by Henry VIII, a professorship at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities
On the death of Edward VI of England he returned Germany in 1553. Edward VI (12 October 1537 &ndash 6 July 1553 became King of England and Ireland on 28 January 1547 and was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine At Zweibrücken he was imprisoned as a Calvinist. Zweibrücken is a City in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river at the border of the Palatinate forest. Calvinism (sometimes called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system and an approach to the [1] He became professor of Old Testament at the university of Heidelberg in 1561, and remained there until he was expelled in 1567. The Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg ( University of Heidelberg, Ruperto Carola, Heidelberg University, or simply Heidelberg) is a He ultimately found refuge at the College of Sedan, where he died.
Works
His chief literary work was a Latin translation of the Bible from the Hebrew and Syriac. The New Testament translation appeared in 1569, at Geneva. Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking The five parts relating to the Old Testament were published at Frankfort-on-the-Main between 1575 and 1579, in London in 1580, and in numerous later editions. The work was joint with Franciscus Junius (the elder), his son-in-law. Franciscus Junius ( May 1, 1545 &ndash October 13, 1602) also known as Francis Junius, Franz Junius, and François This translation was favoured by John Milton[2]. John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and It was used also by John Donne for his version of Lamentations[3]. John Donne (pronounced like done, dʌn 1572 – 31 March 1631 was a Jacobean poet preacher and a major representative of the Metaphysical poets
Tremellius also translated into Hebrew John Calvin's Catechism (Paris, 1551), and wrote a "Chaldaic" and Syriac grammar (Paris, 1569). John Calvin (or Jean Calvin) (10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564 was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and
Reference
- Kenneth Austin (2007), From Judaism to Calvinism: The Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremellius (C. 1510-1580)
- W. Becker: Immanuel Tremellius, ein Proselytenleben im Zeitalter der Reformation, 1890
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Notes
- ^ Nicholas Barker, The Perils of Publishing in the Sixteenth Century: Pietro Bizari and William Parry, Two Elizabethan Misfits, in Edward Chaney, Joseph Burney Trapp, Peter Mack (editors), England and the Continental Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J. The Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is a library in Berlin, Germany and a property of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. B. Trapp (1990), pp. 125-6.
- ^ William B. Hunter, John T. Shawcross (editors), Milton Encyclopedia (1981), p. 88.
- ^ David L. Jeffrey, A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English (1992), p. 433.
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