biography
| name: |
Tyndale or Tindale, William
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pronunciation:
[tindayl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–1536)
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| biography:
| Translator of the Bible, probably born in Slymbridge, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became a chaplain and tutor, sympathetic to humanist learning. In 1524 he went to Hamburg and Wittenberg, and in 1525 to Cologne, where he completed his translation of the English New Testament. In 1531 he moved to Antwerp, where he continued to work on an Old Testament translation, but before it was finished he was seized, accused of heresy, imprisoned, and executed. His work became the basis of most later English translations of the Bible, and much influenced the Authorised Version of 1611. |
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