Pierre Robert Olivétan
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Pierre Robert Olivetan/Olivétan (c. 1506 – 1538), a Waldensian by faith, was the first to translate the Bible into the French language starting from the Hebrew and Greek texts. He was a cousin of John Calvin, who wrote a Latin preface for the translation,[1] often called the Olivetan Bible.
His work was based on that of his teacher Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples.[2] It was published in 1535 as La Bible Qui est toute la Saincte scripture[3] at Neuchâtel. This translation has been considered the first French Protestant Bible.[4]
Notes
edit- ^ French Reformation Archived 2007-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The European Bible (1)
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- ^ The first and nearest approach to a national Protestant version for France[1]; [2], [3].
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- Selected books of Olivétan translation (with modern spelling)