Pierre-Robert Olivétan

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Pierre-Robert Olivétan (also called Olivetanus ) (* around 1505 in Noyon , Picardy ; † 1538 in Italy ) was a Reformed theologian, teacher and Bible translator of the Geneva Bible , the first French Bible from the basic biblical languages.

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Olivétan was the son of a church bailiff and grew up in the same city as John Calvin , whose cousin he was. In 1526 he studied law in Orléans , but had to flee France the following year because he was suspected of heresy . From April 1528 he devoted himself to the study of ancient languages in Strasbourg and was a student of the reformer Martin Bucer . In 1531 he became tutor in Geneva . When a well-known preacher there began to speak out against the Reformation, he contradicted it and caused a scandal. Because of his Reformation sentiments, he was banned from there in November and moved to Neuchâtel , where he also worked as a private tutor. Together with Guillaume Farel , he participated on September 12, 1532 at the Synod of the Waldensians in Chanforan near Torre Pellice , where he was commissioned to create a French translation of the Bible. In the following years he contented himself with small apprenticeships in the valleys of Piedmont .

In 1535 he completed his work on the translation of the Bible. Olivétan's Bible translation in the Old Testament was based on the basic Hebrew and Aramaic text. His New Testament was a revision of the translation that Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples had made around 1523 from the Latin Vulgate (cf. Bible de Lefèvre d'Étaples ). His Bible, printed in 1535 by Pierre de Vingle in Serrières near Neuchâtel, was the first Protestant Bible in French, which became the main Bible of the Huguenots and the basis for many other translations. In May 1536 he was called to teach at the Geneva grammar school and also revised his translation of the Bible. As early as 1533 he worked out an Instruction des enfants , which appeared as a new edition in 1537. In March 1538 he set off on a trip to Italy, where he stayed at the court of Renée de France in Ferrara and died soon afterwards under unknown circumstances in Italy.

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  1. Hermann Schreiber: The Bartholomew Night. The Parisian Blood Wedding and the Flight of the Huguenots . Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, 1994, page 16
  2. Hermann Schreiber: The Bartholomew Night. The Parisian Blood Wedding and the Flight of the Huguenots . Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, 1994, page 16
  3. La Sainte Bible de 1535 traduite par Pierre-Robert Olivetan (Brief history of the origins of the Holy Scriptures from 1535, which was translated by Pierre-Robert Olivetan , into French)
  4. Max Engammare: Olivétan, Pierre Robert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .