Jacob van Liesvelt

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Dat oude end dat nieuwe testament , 1526

Jacob van Liesvelt (* around 1490 in Antwerp ; † November 28, 1545 there ) was an Antwerp printer and Bible translator who printed the first complete translation of the Bible into Dutch in 1526 . This means that there was a printed full Dutch Bible before the Zurich Bible was published as the first complete Alemannic translation in 1530 and the first complete Luther Bible in 1534 .

He translated the part of the New Testament directly from Martin Luther's 1522 edition. He simply changed Luther's East Central German language into the closely related Dutch. For the Old Testament he also used the parts of Luther that had already been published, but translated the missing parts from the Latin Vulgate himself .

After Luther published his first complete Bible in 1534, translating the Old Testament directly from the Greek Septuagint and Hebrew Masoretes , Liesvelt revised his Dutch Bible and in 1535 printed a new edition entirely based on Luther. This edition is the first full Protestant Bible in Dutch that is no longer based in any part on the Vulgate.

Jacob van Liesvelt was close to the Reformation , but he also printed Catholic Bibles and Counter-Reformation texts, such as official ordinances against heresy and even a work by Anna Bijns . However, when he printed a new edition of his Dutch Luther Bible in 1542, he ran into problems with the Antwerp authorities. He was now accused of heresy and sentenced to death. He was executed in Antwerp on November 28, 1545.

His prints were also used by the Anabaptists , who had a great need for Bible translations. When reprints were no longer possible in the Netherlands, they took the Liesvelt Bible with them into exile in East Frisia . In Emden, for example, a Dutch-language Anabaptist Bible was printed by the printer Willem Gailliart , which was mainly based on the translation of Liesvelt, but in the Old Testament was also based on the Latin translations of Erasmus of Rotterdam .

Due to the different spellings of the time, his name is sometimes given as Jakob van Liesveld , or the name Liesfelt Bible with F can be found in the literature.

Works

  • Dat oude end dat nieuwe testament - Gheprint end gheeyndt in dye vermaerde coopstadt van Antwerpen. Inden Jare ons ARMS M.CCCCC. The End. xxvi. the .. vi. dach van September, By my Jacob van Liesveldt wonende tot Antwerpen op dye Cammerpoort Brugghe Is God met ons, Wie mach ons letten Fortitudo mea Deus (2 volumes, 6 September 1526)
  • The Bible met grooter neersticheyt gecorrigeert, end op die canten gheset the ouderdom of the werelt, end hoe long the gheschiedenissen end histories of the Bibles elck int zijn voor Christ gheboorte gheweest zijn, end daer bi veradert uut Fasciculus temporum, end van alutder werelt dye , the principael historien der mightiger heydenscher conincrijcken, daer die heylige scrift oock dickwils af vermaent, tot een claerder verstant der Bibelscher historien, end oock een onderscheyt der tijden te hebben, Cum gratia et Privilegio; Gheprent Thantwerpen op die Camerpoort brugghe inden Schilt van Artoys By my Jacob van Liesvelt. Int Jaer ons HEREN. M CCCCC. end xxxv. The. xviij. roof of April. (April 18, 1535), with a foreword by Martin Luther

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ reformierte.de knowledge win, 2005/4, chapter: The "Jacobszoon-Testament"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.reformiert.de  
  2. ↑ Bibliasacra.nl 1526.B.dut.JvL.a
  3. ↑ Bibliasacra.nl 1535.B.dut.JvL.a
personal data
SURNAME Liesvelt, Jacob van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Antwerp printer who printed the first complete Dutch translation of the Bible
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1545
Place of death Antwerp