Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples

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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples was a French humanist and early biblical scholar whose vernacular translations and reform-minded theology helped lay intellectual foundations for the Protestant Reformation.

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instanceOf French person
Renaissance humanist
biblical scholar
humanist
philosopher
theologian
advocated Scripture as primary authority in theology
use of vernacular Scripture for laypeople
associatedWith Meaux Circle
birthName Jacobus Faber Stapulensis
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples self-link
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of France
dateOfBirth c. 1455
dateOfDeath 1536
educatedAt Sorbonne University
surface form: University of Paris
employer Collège du Cardinal Lemoine
Panthéon-Sorbonne University
surface form: University of Paris
era Renaissance philosophy
fieldOfWork Aristotelian studies
biblical exegesis
patristics
philosophy
theology
gender male
influenced French Reformation
surface form: French Reformers

French Reformation
surface form: Protestant Reformation in France
influencedBy Aristotle
Church Fathers
Desiderius Erasmus
knownFor laying intellectual foundations for the Protestant Reformation
reform-minded theology
vernacular Bible translation into French
languageOfWorkOrName French
Latin
movement Christian humanism
Renaissance
notableWork Aristotelian commentaries
Commentary on the Pauline Epistles
French translation of the New Testament (1523)
French translation of the Psalms
Psalter
surface form: Quintuplex Psalterium
occupation university teacher
patron Marguerite de Navarre
placeOfBirth Étaples, France
placeOfDeath Nérac, France
positionHeld royal counselor on religious matters
religion Roman Catholicism

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French Renaissance notableFigure Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
this entity surface form: Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
Jehan Cauvin influencedBy Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples birthName Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples self-link
William Farel influencedBy Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
Christian humanism associatedWith Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French Reformation hasKeyFigure Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
Jacobus Faber Stapulensis alsoKnownAs Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
Jacobus Faber Stapulensis alsoKnownAs Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
this entity surface form: Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples
French translation of the New Testament (1523) translator Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French translation of the New Testament (1523) author Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
Meaux Circle leader Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
Meaux Circle member Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
Collège de Montaigu educated Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples