Tyndale, William

Tyndale, William

▪ English scholar
born c. 1490–94, near Gloucestershire, Eng.
died Oct. 6, 1536, Vilvoorde, near Brussels, Brabant

      English biblical translator, humanist, and Protestant martyr.

      Tyndale was educated at the University of Oxford and became an instructor at the University of Cambridge, where, in 1521, he fell in with a group of humanist scholars meeting at the White Horse Inn. Tyndale became convinced that the Bible alone should determine the practices and doctrines of the church and that every believer should be able to read the Bible in his own language.

      After church authorities in England prevented him from translating the Bible there, he went to Germany in 1524, receiving financial support from wealthy London merchants. His New Testament translation was completed in July 1525 and printed at Cologne and, when Catholic authorities suppressed it, at Worms. The first copies reached England in 1526. Tyndale then began work on an Old Testament translation but was captured in Antwerp before it was completed; he was executed at Vilvoorde in 1536.

      At the time of his death, several thousand copies of his New Testament had been printed; however, only one intact copy remains today at London's British Library. The first vernacular English text of any part of the Bible to be so published, Tyndale's version became the basis for most subsequent English translations, beginning with the King James Version of 1611.

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