Pierre Robert Olivétan

Pierre Robert Olivétan (c.1506-1538) 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

1. ^ French Reformation
2. ^ The European Bible (1)
3. ^ 6. Spreading the Word / Formatting the Word of God
4. ^ The first and nearest approach to a national Protestant version for France[1]; [2], [3].

External links

• Erich Wenneker (1993). Bautz, Traugott. ed (in German). Olivétan, Pierre-Robert. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 6. Herzberg. cols. 1207–1209. ISBN 3-88309-044-1. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/o/olivetan_p_r.shtml. 
• Selected books of Olivétan translation (with modern spelling)

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