Georg Mayr (Latin Georgius Marius) (1564–1623) was a Bavarian

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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

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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''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayr, Georg Translators of the New Testament into Hebrew German Hebraists 16th-century German Jesuits Grammarians of Hebrew German male non-fiction writers