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Jean Mercier, Latin Joannes Mercerus (

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ca. 15101570) was a French

Hebraist A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, a ...

. Mercier was a pupil of the less known

François Vatable François Vatable (late 15th century – 16 March 1547) was a French humanist scholar, a hellenist and hebraist. Life Born in Gamaches, Picardy, he was for a time rector of Bramet in Valois. In 1530 Francis I of France appointed him as one o ...

, and succeeded Vatable as professor of Hebrew at the Collège Royal. His students included Philippe du Plessis-Mornay,

Zacharius Ursinus Zacharias Ursinus (18 July 15346 May 1583) was a sixteenth-century German Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). He became the leading theologian of the Reformed Protestant movement o ...

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, and Pierre Martinius who became professor at

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. Mercier served as Lecteur du Roi from 1546 onwards.Michel Bideaux ''Les échanges entre les universités européennes à la Renaissance'' Mercier fled to Venice because of his sympathies with Protestantism, but returned to France in 1570 following the conclusion of the third war of religion, only to succumb to the plague.

Works

*Aramaic grammar ''Tabulae in grammaticen linguae Chaldaeae'' (Paris, 1560) *''De notis Hebraeorum liber'' (1582), revised by

Jean Cinqarbres Jean Cinqarbres (Latin name Quinquarboreus) (c.1520s in Aurillac – June 1565) was a French grammarian of Hebrew. With his colleague Jean Mercier (Hebraist) (Mercerus) he shared the role of conjunct royal professor of Hebrew and Syriac Syriac may ...

*Commentary on Genesis (Geneva, posthumous 1598), published by

Théodore de Bèze Theodore Beza ( la, Theodorus Beza; french: Théodore de Bèze or ''de Besze''; June 24, 1519 – October 13, 1605) was a French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Protestant Reformation ...

Translations *Bishop Jean du Tillet's Italian manuscript of the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (Paris, 1555) *Translation of ''

Constantine Harmenopoulos Constantine Harmenopoulos ( el, ; 1320 – ) was a Byzantine jurist from Greece who held the post of '' katholikos kritēs'' ("universal judge") of Thessalonica, one of the highest judicial offices in the Byzantine Empire. He is best known for his ...

'' '' Hexabiblos'' or ''Procheiron (''Lyons'', ''1556, reprinted in 1580, 1587) *Talmudic selections: ''Libellus de abbreviaturis Hebraeorum, tam Talmudicorum quam Masoritarum et aliorum rabbinorum'' (Paris, 1561) *Hebrew Jonah with commentary of David Kimchi ''Jonas cum commentariis R. David Kimhi'' (1567) *Translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's ''Commentary on the Ten Commandments'' (Lyons, ca. 1567) *Notes to Santes Pagnini's ''Oẓar Leshon ha-Kodesh'' (Lyons, 1575) *Translation of

Targum Jonathan Targum Jonathan (), otherwise referred to as Targum Yonasan/Yonatan, is the official eastern (Babylonian) targum (Aramaic translation) to the Nevi'im ("prophets"). It is not to be confused with "Targum Pseudo-Jonathan", an Aramaic translation of ...

on the Prophets

References

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