Joanes Leizarraga Joanes Leizarraga (1506–1601) was a 16th-century Basque priest. He is most famous for being the first to attempt the standardisation of the Basque language and for the translation of religious works into Basque, in particular the first Basque t ...

, a Catholic priest who joined the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

, translated the New Testament into Basque (1571). George Borrow translated the

Gospel of Luke The Gospel of Luke), or simply Luke (which is also its most common form of abbreviation). tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-volu ...

into Basque in 1838, but the translation were banned for personal sale, with only public libraries being permitted copies. Jose Antonio Uriarte produced the first complete Bible translation in Gipuzkoan Basque in the mid-19th century, but this was never published. His close colleague, Jean-Pierre Duvoisin, made the first translation which was published (in Lapurdian Basque) in 1859, under the auspices of the philologist

Louis Lucien Bonaparte Louis Lucien Bonaparte (4 January 1813 – 3 November 1891) was a French philologist. The third son of Napoleon's second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte, he spent much of his life outside France for political reasons. After a brief politica ...

. The new was published in 1983 (New Testament) and completed 1994.

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