Immanuel Tremellius

John Immanuel Tremellius (* 1510 in Ferrara, Italy, † October 9, 1580 in Sedan, France ) was an Italian Exulant and Reformed theologian.

Life

Tremellius was born in 1510 to Jewish parents in Ferrara and graduated from the University of Pavia and went over to Protestantism in 1540. A year later, however, he was by Peter Martyr Vermigli win for the teaching of John Calvin. He left Italy and went to Strasbourg and came in 1547 on the invitation of Thomas Cranmer to England, where he taught Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. When Mary Tudor ascended the throne in 1553, he was forced to leave England. He was followed from 1554 to 1558 royal tutor of the house of Pfalz- Zweibrücken before in 1559, first director of the National School in Hornbach (later Duke -Wolfgang -Gymnasium ), he. In 1561 he became professor of biblical studies in Heidelberg. In 1577 he was expelled, and taught in his last years at the Reformed Academy Sedan. Tremellius wrote a Chaldean and Syriac grammar and has become famous mainly for his translation of the Latin Bible of the Protestants from the Hebrew ( 1569-79 ).