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Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
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French theologian and humanist (1450 ca.-1536/1538)
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Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples was a male theologian, translator, philosopher, and music theorist from the Kingdom of France. Born in Étaples in 1450, he died in Nérac. He was a member of the Catholic Church and spoke renaissance Latin, medieval Greek, and Middle French, which was also his native language.
He studied under George Hermonymus, John Argyropoulos, and Alexander Hegius von Heek. His doctoral advisors were George Hermonymus and John Argyropoulos. Lefèvre d'Étaples taught William Farel, Charles de Bovelles, Guillaume Briçonnet, and Melchior Volmar. His doctoral students included François Vatable and Melchior Volmar. He was associated with Erasmus, Guillaume Budé, and Beatus Rhenanus.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- France
- Active from
- 1450
- Active to
- 1536
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Key facts
- Born
- c. 1455 , Étaples , Picardy , Kingdom of France
- Died
- c. 1536 (age approx. 81), Nérac , Guyenne , Kingdom of France
- Other name
- Jacobus Faber Stapulensis
- Era
- Renaissance philosophy
- School or tradition
- French humanism
- Main interests
- Theology Biblical translation Philology Music theory Mathematics Aristotelianism Platonism
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jacques
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Place of birth
- Étaples
- Place of death
- Nérac
- Occupation
- presbyter
- Languages spoken
- Middle French
- Native language
- Middle French
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Doctoral advisor
- John Argyropoulos
- Student of
- Alexander Hegius von Heek
- Doctoral student
- Melchior Volmar
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- FaberStapulensis.jpg
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- 1536-00-00
- date of birth
- 1450-00-00
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- Melchior Volmar
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- Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
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- Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples
- significant person
- Beatus Rhenanus
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Encyclopedic overview
Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples ( French pronunciation: [ʒak ləfɛvʁ detapl]; Latinized as Jacobus Faber Stapulensis; c. 1455 – c. 1536) was a French theologian and a leading figure in French humanism. He was a precursor of the Protestant movement in France. The "d'Étaples" was not part of his name as such, but used to distinguish him from Jacques Lefèvre of Deventer, a less significant contemporary who was a friend and correspondent of Erasmus. Both are also sometimes called by the German version of their name, Jacob/Jakob Faber. He himself had a sometimes tense relationship with Erasmus, whose work on biblical translation and in theology closely paralleled his own.
Although he anticipated some ideas that were important to the Protestant Reformation, Lefèvre remained a Roman Catholic throughout his life, and sought to reform the Church without separating from it. Several of his books were condemned as heretical, and he spent some time in exile. He was, however, a favorite of the King of France, Francis I, and enjoyed his protection.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.