Immanuel Tremellius
Johannes Immanuel Tremellius (* 1510 in Ferrara , Italy ; † October 9, 1580 in Sedan , France ) was an Italian exile and Reformed theologian .
Life
Tremellius was born to Jewish parents in Ferrara in 1510 and studied at the University of Pavia and converted to Protestantism in 1540 . A year later, however, he was won over by Peter Martyr Vermigli for the teaching of John Calvin . He left Italy, went to Strasbourg and came to England in 1547 at the invitation of Thomas Cranmer , where he taught Hebrew as Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge . When Mary I Tudor ascended the throne in 1553, he had to leave England. He was then from 1554 to 1558 prince educator of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken before he became the first head of the state school in Hornbach (the later Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium ) in 1559 . In 1561 he became professor for biblical studies in Heidelberg . In 1577 he was expelled and taught in the last years of his life at the Reformed Academy Sedan . Tremellius wrote a Chaldean and a Syrian grammar and is best known for his translation of the Protestant Latin Bible from Hebrew (1569–79).
literature
- W. Becker: Immanuel Tremellius, a proselyte life in the age of the Reformation. 1890.
- Theodor Julius Ney: Tremellius, Immanuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 563-565.
- Erich Wenneker : Immanuel Tremellius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 444-448.
- Kenneth Austin: From Judaism to Calvinism: The Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremellius (c 1510-1580). Ashgate 2007.
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| SURNAME | Tremellius, Immanuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tremellius, Johannes Immanuel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian exile and reformed theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1510 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ferrara , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1580 |
| Place of death | Sedan , France |