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François Vatable (b. at
Gamaches,
Picardy, probably in the latter years of the fifteenth century; d. in
Paris,
16 March1547), was a French humanist scholar, a Hellenist and Hebraist.
Life
He was for a time rector of
Bramet in
Valois, in 1530 or 1531.
François I of France appointed him to the chair of Hebrew in the newly-founded (1530)
College of the Three Languages, afterwards better known as "College de France". At a later date a royal grant conferred upon Vatable the title of Abbot of
Bellozane, with the benefices attached thereto. Vatable is regarded as the restorer of Hebrew scholarship in France, and his lectures in Paris attracted a large audience including Jews.
Works
He published nothing during his lifetime. He had, however, completed a Latin translation of
Aristotle's
Meterologica, which appeared at
Lyon in 1548, and another of the same author's
Parva naturalia, which was published in Paris (1619).
From the lecture notes taken by Vatable's pupils
Robert Estienne drew the material for the
scholia which he added to his edition of the new Latin translation of the Bible by
Leo of Juda (4 vols., Paris, 1539-45). The
Sorbonne doctors sharply inveighed against the
Lutheran tendencies of the notes of Stephen's Bible, and Vatable himself disowned them; yet, as they're a model of clear, concise literary, and critical exegesis, the
Salamanca theologians, with the authorization of the
Spanish Inquisition, issued a new thoroughly-revised edition of them in their Latin Bible of 1584. From the edition of 1729
Migne republished, in his
Scripturae sacrae cursus completus (XII, Paris, 1841), the scholia on the
Book of Esdras and
Book of Nehemias. The notes on the
Psalms, re-edited in R. Stephens's
Liber Psalmorum Davidis (1557), were printed again, together with remarks of
H. Grotius, by Vogel under the misleading title:
Francisci Vatabli annotationes in Psalmos (Halle, 1767).
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