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Bischofszell

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 – September 26, 1564, Zurich

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) was a Swiss Orientalist, publisher, and linguist. Born Theodor Buchmann (Bibliander is a Greek translation of this surname) in Bischofszell, he studied Latin under Oswald Myconius

Oswald Myconius

Oswald Myconius was a follower of Huldrych Zwingli.He was born at Lucerne, Switzerland. His family name was Geisshüsler, and his father was a miller; hence he was also called Molitoris...

, and Greek and Hebrew under Jakob Ceporin

Jakob Ceporin

Jakob Ceporin was a Swiss humanist. Born Jakob Wiesendanger in the town of Dinhard, Ceporin was the son of a wealthy farmer...

, and attended lectures in Basel

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 between 1525-7 given by Johannes Oekolampad and Konrad Pelikan. He also became familiar with the Arabic language

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 and other languages from the East; he became a professor of theology. He published a Hebrew grammar in 1535, and commentaries on the Bible

Bible

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. He published the first printed edition of the Qur'an

Qur'an

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 in Latin (Basel, 1543), based on the medieval translation of Robert of Ketton

Robert of Ketton

Robert of Ketton was an English medieval theologian, astronomer and Arabist.Ketton, where Robert was either born or perhaps first took holy orders, is a small village in Rutland, a few miles from Stamford.Robert is believed to have been educated at the Cathedral School of Paris...

. The edition included Doctrina Machumet, a translation of the Arabic theological tract known as the Book of a Thousand Questions. Considered the father of biblical exegesis in Switzerland

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, Bibliander became involved in a doctrinal controversy with Pietro Martire Vermigli

Pietro Martire Vermigli

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 (Peter Martyr) over predestination

Predestination

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; he was removed from his theological professorship in 1560. He died of the plague

Bubonic plague

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Works

• Institutionum grammaticarum de lingua Hebraea liber unus, Zurich, 1535
• De optimo genere grammaticorum Hebraicorum, Hieronymus Curio, Zurich, 1542
• Machumetis Saracenorum principis eiusque successorum vitae ac doctrina ipseque Alcoran, Johannes Oporin, Basel, 1543, 1550. (Qur'an: on-line text with critical apparatus in French, on-line text with critical apparatus in German)
• Relatio fidelis, Johannes Oporin, Basel, 1545
• De ratione communi omnium linguarum et litterarum commentarius, Christoph Froschauer, Zurich, 1548
• De ratione temporum, Johannes Oporin, Basel, 1551
• Temporum a condito mundo usque ad ultimam ipsius aetatem supputatio, Johannses Oporin, Basel, 1558

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