
Georg Mayr (Latin Georgius Marius) (1564–1623) was a Bavarian
Jesuit
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priest and
Hebrew grammarian.
Mayr spent most of career teaching
Hebrew language
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language unti ...
. His Hebrew grammar (Augsburg, 1616) went through many editions and he published many Hebrew translations. Mayr also published the illustrated version of the
catechism
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of
Peter Canisius
Peter Canisius (; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597) was a Dutch Jesuit priest known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Switzerland and the British Isles. The ...
, and then translations into Greek (Ingolstadt 1595) and Hebrew (1620).
[''Petrus Canisius: Reformer der Kirche : Festschrift zum 400.'' Julius Oswald, Peter Rummel - 1996 "Kardinal Bellarmin selbst schreibt an Georg Mayr SJ (1564-1623), der 1613 die Bilder-Ausgabe des Kleinen Katechismus des Canisius besorgt und ihn auch ins Griechische (Ingolstadt 1595) und Hebräische (Ingolstadt 1620) übertragen hatte,"]
Works
* Hebrew New Testament, 1620
* Hebrew Grammar - ''Institutiones linguae Hebraicae,'' Augsburg, 1616
* ''Fasciculus Sacrarum Litaniarum''
References
External links
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Translators of the New Testament into Hebrew
German Hebraists
16th-century German Jesuits
Grammarians of Hebrew
German male non-fiction writers