Cipriano de Valera
Cipriano de Valera (* 1532 in the parish Fregenal de la Sierra , Badajoz , † 1602 in London ) was a Spanish humanist and Calvinist Protestant who revised and re-edited the Spanish translation of the Bible by Casiodoro de Reina .
Life
De Valera studied at the Universidad de Sevilla trays dialectic and philosophy , Dialectica y Filosofía ; at the same time as Benedictus Arias Montanus . Later he joined, like Casiodoro de Reina , as a monk in the Hieronymites Monastery of San Isidoro del Campo outside Seville ( Monasterio jerónimo de San Isidoro del Campo de Sevilla ). Like Casiodoro de Reina, he had to flee in 1557. He first fled to Geneva and , like de Reina, went to England in 1558 when the reign of Queen Elizabeth I began. There he became a professor at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford .
He was probably married twice, his first wife being Anne de Valera. The couple probably had three children, living intermittently in the Broad Street Ward in St Sepulcher-without-Newgate, London .
From 1582 he began a revision of the Spanish Bible by Casiodoro de Reina.
In 1597 a Spanish edition of Calvin's Institutio Christianae Religionis came out. In 1602 de Valera's revision of the Bible was printed in Amsterdam . The print came after Casiodoro de Reina's death, who died in 1594. In the 1602 revision, the Apocrypha was moved to a section between the Old and New Testaments, as in the Luther Bible . Since this revision, the Bible has been given the name Reina-Valera , which has not been changed even after further revisions.
Cipriano de Valera died in London in 1602 , a year before the death of Elizabeth I and thus before the end of the Elizabethan Age .
Works
In addition to the Spanish translation of the Bible , he published other works and translations:
- Cipriano de Valera: Opúsculos.
- Cipriano de Valera: Los dosorteados del Papa y de la Misa. (German: Two tracts from the Pope and the Mass ). circa 1588.
- John Calvin; Cipriano de Valera (translator): Institución de la Religón cristiana. 1597. (Reprint: 2003, ISBN 84-7522-799-6 )
- Cipriano de Valera: Tratado para confirmar en la fe cristiana a los cautivos de Berberia. 1594.
- Cipriano de Valera: An ansvvere or admonition to those of the Church of Rome, touching the iubile, proclaimed by the bull, made and set foorth by Pope Clement the eyght, for the year of our Lord. 1600. Printed by E. Allde for John Volfe, London 1600.
literature
- Paul J. Hauben: Three Spanish Heretics and the Reformation. Antonio Del Corro, Cassiodoro De Reina, Cypriano De Valera. (Études de philologie et d'histoire, 3) Droz, Geneva 1967.
- Lewis J. Hutton: A Spanish Heretic: Cipriano de Valera. In: Church History. XXVII 1958, pp. 23-31.
See also
Web links
- Arthur Gordon Kinder: Three spanish reformers of the sixth century: Juan Pérez, Cassiodora de Reina, Cipriano de Valera. Dissertation, University of Sheffield, 1971
- A. Gordon Children: CIPRIANO DE VALERA, REFORMADOR ESPAÑOL (¿1532-1602? ), Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, pp. 165–179
References and comments
- ↑ Arthur Gordon Children: Three Spanish reformers of the sixth century: Juan Pérez, Cassiodora de Reina, Cipriano de Valera. Dissertation, University of Sheffield, 1971, pp. 161 f.
- ^ Mariano Delgado: The Spanish Bible Translations in the Early Modern Period. (PDF; 10.73 MB) In: Swiss Journal for Religious and Cultural History. Association for Swiss Church History, 2007, accessed on October 13, 2013 .
- ↑ A facsimile edition was published in 1992 by the Spanish Bible Society : Sagrada Biblia. Sociedad Biblica, Madrid 1992, ISBN 84-85132-72-6 .
- ↑ Research with the: Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Valera, Cipriano de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish Protestant |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1532 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fregenal de la Sierra |
DATE OF DEATH | 1602 |
Place of death | London |