Theodore (or Theodorus) Bibliander (; 1509 – 26 September 1564) was a

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orientalist, publisher, Protestant reformer and linguist.

Biography

Born Theodor Buchmann (''Bibliander'' is a Greek translation of this surname) in Bischofszell in 1509, he studied Latin under Oswald Myconius, and Greek and Hebrew under Jakob Ceporin, and attended lectures in

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between 1525 and 1527 given by Johannes Oecolampadius and Konrad Pelikan. He also became familiar with the

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and other languages from the East; he became a professor of theology. He published a Hebrew grammar in 1535, and commentaries on the

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. Johannes Oporinus printed Bibliander's edition of the

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in Latin (Basel, 1543), which was based on the medieval translation of Robert of Ketton. The edition included the entire Toledan Collection, including ''Doctrina Machumet'', a translation of the Arabic theological tract known as the '' Book of One Thousand Questions''. Considered the father of

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, Bibliander became involved in a doctrinal controversy with Pietro Martire Vermigli (Peter Martyr) over

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; he was removed from his theological professorship at the ''Carolinum'' academy in 1560. He died of the plague in

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on 26 September 1564, at the age of 54–55.

Works

*''Institutionum grammaticarum de lingua Hebraea liber unus'', Zürich, 1535 *''De optimo genere grammaticorum Hebraicorum'', Hieronymus Curio, Zürich, 1542 *''Machumetis Saracenorum principis eiusque successorum vitae ac doctrina ipseque Alcoran'', Johannes Oporin, Basel, 1543, 1550. (Qur'an
on-line text with critical apparatus in French
*''Relatio fidelis'', Johannes Oporin, Basel, 1545 *
De ratione communi omnium linguarum et litterarum commentarius
', Christoph Froschauer, Zürich, 1548 *''De ratione temporum'', Johannes Oporin, Basel, 1551 *''Temporum a condito mundo usque ad ultimam ipsius aetatem supputatio'', Johannses Oporin, Basel, 1558

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* * 1509 births 1564 deaths People from Weinfelden District Swiss Calvinist and Reformed theologians 16th-century Swiss scientists 16th-century deaths from plague (disease) Translators of the Quran into Latin Infectious disease deaths in Switzerland 16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians Academic staff of Carolinum, Zurich Christian Hebraists {{quran-translator-stub

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