Wasyl Ciapiński (; ; ) (1540s in

Vitebsk Voivodeship Vitebsk Voivodeship (; ; ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (from 1569 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) from the 15th century until the partitions of Poland in 1795. History Zygmunt Gl ...

– c. 1604) was a Belarusian-Lithuanian noble, humanist, educator, writer, publisher and translator from the

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...

known for translating the

Bible The Bible is a collection of religious texts that are central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally writt ...

into the

Belarusian language Belarusian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language. It is one of the two Languages of Belarus, official languages in Belarus, the other being Russian language, Russian. It is also spoken in parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Polan ...

. He was behind the printing of the "Moscow Gospel" in the 1570s, and is regarded as one of the early facilitators of Belarusian printed literature. His Bible is sometimes understood to have been printed in UkrainianThe Lithuanian-Rus'commonwealth, the Polish domination, and the ... Nicholas L. Chirovsky - 1984 "Only a few years later, in the early 1580s, Tyapinsky, a Unitarian, also published parts of the Bible in Ukrainian. There were also other attempts to translate and publish the Holy Scriptures in their entirety or in parts " but is today generally regarded as

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*, Беларускі Гістарычны Зборнік - Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne nr 18

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1540s births 1604 deaths Belarusian male writers Lithuanian writers Translators of the Bible into Belarusian Belarusian Unitarians Lithuanian Protestants Unitarians 16th-century Lithuanian nobility Belarusian printers {{Bible-translator-stub