Jacob Antonius Vulpius

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Jacob Antonius Vulpius (* 1629 in Ftan ; † July 8, 1706 there ) was a Swiss Reformed clergyman and Bible translator .

Life

Jacob Antonius Vulpius was born in Ftan in Graubünden in 1629 as the son of pastor Nicolaus Anthonius Vulpius (1582-1656). After attending the Latin school in Chur , he attended the University of Zurich after 1644 . Five years later he graduated from the Academy in Geneva on. He was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod on May 31, 1651, with which he was allowed to work as a pastor in the Free State of the Three Leagues . In 1654 he took over the community in his home village of Ftan. Later he also worked there as a notary . He held his pastorate for 52 years until his death on July 8, 1706.

Act as a Bible translator

Vulpius and his father first translated the psalms, which in Ladin were called Biblia pitschna , the little Bible; and by the printer Jachen Andri Dorta in Scuol 1666. To the 150 biblical psalms in prose, 30 psalms rhymed for singing and 25 spiritual songs are added in an appendix, which Jachen Töna Vulpius, an uncle, had established in the meter of well-known songs. It does not contain any notes yet, only references to the melodies of the Lobwasser Psalter to be selected or to the familiar German way . Even today some of these songs are in the Reformed Romanesque church hymn book Il Coral .

He then translated the entire Bible into the Lower Engadine language , which was again printed by Dorta in Scuol in 1679 and became known as the monumental Bibla da Scuol with 1520 pages.

Works

  • Biblia pitschna. Dorta, Scuol 1666
  • La sacra Bibla. Quai ais tuot la Sancta Scrittüra, in la quala sun comprais tuots cudeschs dal Velg é Nouf Testamaint cun l'aggiunta dall'apocrifa. Dorta, Scuol 1679
  • Historia raetica. Tranala. et scritta in lingua vulgara ladina. Huoassa promovüda alla stampa 'n il text original tras Conradin de Moor 1705, Coira 1866

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick A. Wild: Jacob Antonius Vulpius' Bibla Pitschna from 1666. Library Chesa Planta Samedan
  2. ^ Adolf Collenberg: Vulpius, Jacob Anton. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Vulpius, Jacob Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Reformed clergyman and Bible translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Ftan
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1706
Place of death Ftan