Pierre Robert Olivetan/Olivétan (c. 1506 – 1538), a
Waldensian by faith, was the first to translate the
Bible
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into the
French language starting from the Hebrew and Greek texts. He was a cousin of
John Calvin, who wrote a Latin preface for the translation, often called the .
His work was based on that of his teacher
Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples. It was published in 1535 as ''La Bible Qui est toute la Saincte scripture'' at
Neuchâtel. This translation has been considered the first French Protestant Bible.
[''The first and nearest approach to a national Protestant version for France]
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Selected books of Olivétan translation(with modern spelling)
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People from Noyon
1538 deaths
French biblical scholars
Translators of the Bible into French
Year of birth uncertain
16th-century Calvinist and Reformed Christians