François Vatable

François Vatable , or Vateblé , French theologist, born with Gamache, village of the diocese of Amiens

Biography

It was initially cleaned of Bramet, in the Valois, then Hebrew professor of with Paris, when François Ier founded the Collège de France, and it died abbot of Bellozane. The great name which it preserved until our days, is founded on its immense scholarship, digested well and of an easy communication, on the talent which it had to polish to teach and on the contest of listeners that its reputation attracted with its lessons, it professed abundance; many Jews even came the ènteïïdre and admired its knowledge; remainder it wrote little.

It was said that its schoolboys having collected its notes on the Old Testament, Robert Estienne printed them in 1545 in its edition of the news Latin Bible of Leon de Juda; but, as these notes are full with scraps taken of Caléon, Munster, Fagius and other French and German Protestants, sometimes copied word for word, it is probable that Robert Estienne, who had great connections with reformed Zurich, borrowed them these notes, as well as the version; it made use of the name of Valid only not to go odious to doctors de Paris who did not like it.

At all events, they were condemned by the faculty of theology of Paris. Estienne, withdrawn with Geneva, defended them with transport and still more Calviniste S returned them by reprinting them. The doctors of Salamanque, less scrupulous than those of Paris, made them reappear with approval, however after having improved them and having corrected in several places. Nicolas Henri, professor of Hebrew to the college of France, gave of it the last edition, 1729 - 1745, 2 vol. in-fol. They are literal, critical, clear and of a great utility for the intelligence of the Writing.

Valid was the restorer of the study of the Hebraic language in France. The Bible which one calls of Valid contains the version vulgate and that of Leon de Juda. Valid was less erudite in the Greek than in Hebrew. He had translated the treaties of Aristote entitled Parva naturalia , which one finds in the edition of Duval. He was persecuted by the doctors of Sorbonne of the faction of Béda. The Protestants wanted to attract it with their party; but he lived as a catholic and died the March 16th 1547 (see: Clement Marot).

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