Wasyl Ciapiński ( be, Vasil Ciapinski (Васіль Мікалаевіч Цяпінскі-Амельяновіч); pl, Wasyl Ciapiński, Omelianowicz; russian: Vasily Tyapinski) (1540s in

Vitebsk Voivodeship Vitebsk Voivodeship ( be, Віцебскае ваяводзтва, pl, Województwo witebskie, la, Palatinatus Vitebsciensis) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (from 1569 Polish–Lithu ...

– c. 1604) was a Belarusian-Lithuanian noble, humanist, educator, writer, publisher and translator from the

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century to 1795, when the territory was partitioned among the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The state was founded by Li ...

known for translating the

Bible The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...

into the

Belarusian language Belarusian ( be, беларуская мова, biełaruskaja mova, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language. It is the native language of many Belarusians and one of the two official state languages in Belarus. Additionally, it is spoken in some p ...

. He was behind the printing of the "Moscow Gospel" in the 1570s, and is regarded as one of the early facilitators of Belarusian printed literature. His Bible is sometimes understood to have been printed in UkrainianThe Lithuanian-Rus'commonwealth, the Polish domination, and the ... Nicholas L. Chirovsky - 1984 "Only a few years later, in the early 1580s, Tyapinsky, a Unitarian, also published parts of the Bible in Ukrainian. There were also other attempts to translate and publish the Holy Scriptures in their entirety or in parts " but is today generally regarded as

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Szlachta ruska Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego a reformacja
Беларускі Гістарычны Зборнік - Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne nr 18

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1540s births 1604 deaths Belarusian male writers Lithuanian writers Translators of the Bible into Belarusian Belarusian Unitarians Lithuanian Protestants Unitarians 16th-century Lithuanian nobility Belarusian printers {{Bible-translator-stub