Martin, Gregory, -1582
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Name (Latin)
Martin, Gregory, -1582
Other forms of name
Marten, Mr., -1582
Martin, Gregorie, -1582
Martinus, Gregorius, -1582
Martin, Gregory, d. 1582
Martinus, Gregorius, d. 1582
Martin, Gregorie, d. 1582
Date of birth
1540-10-28
Date of death
1582-10-28
Associated country
England and Wales
Great Britain
Field of activity
Greek language
Hebrew language
Latin language
Protestantism--Controversial literature
Religious disputations
Translating and interpreting
Bible--Translating
Bible--Versions, Catholic vs. Protestant
Catholic Church--Apologetic works
Catholic theological seminaries
Church of England--Controversial literature
Counter-Reformation
Occupation
Linguists
Priests
Religious educators
Theologians
Translators
catholic theological seminaries employees
Catholic Church--Clergy
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- A defense of the sincere and trve translation of the Holy Scriptvres into the English tongve, 1633:t.p. (Gregorie Martin)
- Bible. English. Douai. Douay Bible.
- His A treatise of schisme, 1578:t.p. (Gregorie Martin)
- Martin, Gregory. A discouerie of the manifold corruptions of the Holy Scriptures by the heretikes of our daies, 1582, viewed online 22 April 2020:title page (Gregory Martin one of the readers of Diuinitie in the English College of Rhemes)
- Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 22 April 2020(Martin, Gregory (1542?-1582); Mr. Marten (in 28 November 1578 letter by Robert Persons to Edmund Campion); Roman Catholic priest and biblical translator; born at Maxfield in Guestling, Sussex; nominated in 1577 as scholar at St John's College, Oxford, exact contemporary of Campion; BA and MA degrees; they continued at St John's as fellows and lecturers, Martin in Greek (1564-8); manuscript on Greek pronunciation 1567 or 1568 (published in 1712 as Gregorius Martinus ad Adolphum Mekerchum pro veteri & vera Graecarum literarum pronunciatione); position in household of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, as tutor to Norfolk's sons; resigned fellowship 15 December 1568; after duke arrested in 1569, Martin fled to Continent; William Allen welcomed him to recently founded English College at Douai, Campion joined him in summer 1570; together they studied theology at new University of Douai; received bachelor's degree 21 January 1573; ordained in Brussels 21 March 1573; licentiate in theology 11 January 1575; May 1576, started lecturing in Hebrew at English College at Douai; enrolled as chaplain of English Hospice in Rome for nearly 18 months, taught the seminarians, devised programme of studies; Allen recalled Martin; 23 July 1578, Martin returned to English College, recently transferred from Douai to Rheims; controversial manual A Treatise of Schisme (November 1578): in response to Elizabethan Act of Uniformity, justified Council of Trent's condemnation of passive attendance at established church [of England]; English translation of Bible: translated entire Vulgate September 1578-July 1580 (Allen, Richard Bristow, and William Reynolds were involved primarily as revisers); The New Testament of Iesus Christ with Bristow's notes published at Rheims 1582; Old Testament appeared in 2-volume Holie Bible published at Douai 1609-10; manual on protestant corruption and abuse of scripture: A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures by the Heretikes of our Daies (1582); Roma sancta (manuscript worked on July 1580-April 1581): sections published in A Treatyse of Christian Peregrination (1583), along with 3 letters to "heretics" reprinted as The Love of the Soule (1578, vere England, c.1597); commemorated martyred friend Campion with Latin poetic eulogy first published in Allen's A Brief Historie of the Glorious Martyrdom of xii. Reverend Priests (1582); died in Reims 28 October 1582)
- Gregory Martin (Q5607070); description: English scholar and translator; sex or gender: male; date of birth: 1540, Gregorian (sources: BnF, retrieved 10 October 2015, British National Bibliography, retrieved 9 October 2017); place of birth: Maxfield; date of death: 28 October 1582, Gregorian; occupation: linguist, translator; educated at St John's College, English College; religion: Catholic Church ( (Wikidata, 22 April 2020) )
- Wikipedia, April 15, 2015under Gregory Martin (scholar) (The Reverend Father Gregory Martin (c. 1542 - 28 October 1582) was an English Catholic Priest, a noted scholar of his time, academic and Doctor of Divinity, and served as the chief translator of the Douay-Rheims Version of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate)
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