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'''Immanuel Tremellius''' (Giovanni Emmanuele Tremellio; [[1510 AD|1510]] – 9 October [[1580 AD|1580]]) was an Italian [[Jewish]] convert to Christianity. He was known as a leading [[Hebraist]] and [[Bible]] [[Bible translations|translator]].

== Life ==
He was born at [[Ferrara]], and educated at the [[University of Padua]]. He was converted about [[1540 AD|1540]] to the Catholic faith through [[Cardinal Pole]], but embraced [[Protestantism]] in the following year, and went to [[Strasbourg]] to teach [[Hebrew]].

Owing to the [[Schmalkaldic War]] in Germany he was compelled to seek asylum in England, where he resided at [[Lambeth Palace]] with [[Archbishop Cranmer]] in [[1547 AD|1547]]. In [[1549 AD|1549]] he succeeded [[Paul Fagius]] as [[Regius professor of Hebrew at Cambridge]].

On the death of [[Edward VI of England]] he returned to Germany in [[1553 AD|1553]]. At [[Zweibrücken]] he was imprisoned as a [[Calvinist]].[1] He became professor of [[Old Testament]] at the [[University of Heidelberg]] in [[1561 AD|1561]], and remained there until he was released from his post in [[1577 AD|1577]]. He ultimately found refuge at the [[College of Sedan]], where he died. According to Morison, "when dying reversed his nation's decision, and exclaimed, Not Barabbas, but Jesus! (Vivat Christus, et pereat Barabbas!)."[2]

==Works==
His chief literary work was a [[Latin]] translation of the Bible from the [[Hebrew]] and [[Syriac]]. The New Testament translation, by [[Theodore Beza#Beza's Greek New Testament|Theodore Beza]], appeared in [[1569 AD|1569]], at [[Geneva]]. The five parts relating to the Old Testament were published at [[Frankfurt am Main|Frankfurt]] between [[1575 AD|1575]] and [[1579 AD|1579]], in London in [[1580 AD|1580]], and in numerous later editions. The work was joint with [[Franciscus Junius (the elder)]], his son-in-law. This translation was favored by [[John Milton]].[3]

Tremellius also translated [[John Calvin|John Calvin's]] [[Geneva Catechism]] into [[Hebrew]] (Paris, [[1551 AD|1551]]), and wrote a "Chaldaic" and Syriac grammar (Paris, [[1569 AD|1569]]).

== See also ==
* [[Theodore Beza]]
* [[John Calvin]]

==References==
* 1. Nicholas Barker, 'The Perils of Publishing in the Sixteenth Century: Pietro Bizari and William Parry, Two Elizabethan Misfits', in Edward Chaney and Peter Mack (editors), England and the Continental Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J. B. Trapp (1990), pp. 125-6.
* 2. James Morison, ''A Practical Commentary on the Gospel According St. Matthew,'' (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902), p. 581.
* 3. William B. Hunter, John T. Shawcross (editors), ''Milton Encyclopedia'' (1981), p. 88.</ref> It was used also by [[John Donne]] for his version of ''[[Genre of the Lamentations|Lamentations]].<ref>David L. Jeffrey, ''A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English'' (1992), p. 433.
* 4.

=== Further reading ===
* Kenneth Austin (2007), ''From Judaism to Calvinism: The Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremellius (c. 1510-1580)''
* Dagmar Drüll, ''Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1386-1651'', Berlin: Springer, 2002, pp. 532–533.
*W. Becker: ''Immanuel Tremellius, ein Proselytenleben im Zeitalter der Reformation'', 1890

==External links==
*[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=314&letter=T Source]
*[http://stabikat.de/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1016&SRT=YOP&TRM=Tremellius%2C+Immanuel Literaturliste im Online-Katalog] der [[Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin]]
*[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc11/Page_504.html ''Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge''], vol. 11, pp. 504.

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