Gustav Wasa Bible
The Gustav Wasa Bible (also Vasa Bible ) was printed from 1540 to 1541 and published in Uppsala as the first Swedish translation of the Bible in 1541 . The original Swedish title is: Biblia / Thet är / All then Helgha Scrifft / på Swensko .
Emergence
The Bible was translated by the Swedish reformers Olaus Petri , Laurentius Andreae and Laurentius Petri , who was also Sweden's first Lutheran Archbishop . The translation was based on the German version by Martin Luther from 1526. The Gustav Wasa Bible was printed by Jürgen Richolff the Younger , who was specially summoned to Sweden from northern Germany in 1539 to take over the printing of the first complete translation of the Bible. This Bible is regarded as a typographical masterpiece and is also the most extensive book printed in Sweden in the entire 16th century . The fonts used follow the German Bible model.
backgrounds
At the Diet of Västerås in 1527 , Gustav I. Wasa - instead of the Pope - was appointed head of the Swedish Church . The translation of the New Testament , which later followed the entire Bible, made a significant contribution to creating a uniform national language and administration under Gustav I. Wasa. In particular, with the Swedish Bible, a nationally uniform spelling of words was achieved.
More translations
- A second Gustav II Adolfs Bible appeared in 1618 as a revised version of the original Gustav Wasa Bible.
- The Karl XII Bible was published in 1703 as another new version of the Gustav Wasa Bible; until 1917 it was the official Swedish church Bible.
literature
- Dieter Lohmeier : Jürgen Richolff dJ In: Alken Bruns and Dieter Lohmeier (Hrsg.): The Lübeck book printers in the 15th and 16th centuries. Letterpress for the Baltic region. Boyens, Heide in Holstein 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0668-9 , pp. 80-82
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nationalcycklopedien: gustav-vasas-bibel (in Swedish)
- ↑ Lohmeier (see lit.), p. 80