Polskie przekłady Biblii w okresie Reformacji
The Translations of the Bible into Polish in the Period of the Reformation

Author(s): Tadeusz Krzysztof Sznajderski
Subject(s): Philosophy, Biblical studies, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Bible; national language; translation; humanism; Reformation
Summary/Abstract: The article dispels the myth that the Reformation caused interest in the Bible through critical activity of Martin Luther. The humanism of the 15th century, in the first stage of the Renaissance, through the works of Jan Gerson, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Thomas Morus, Laurentino Vall, focused interest on the Bible philosophical study, and on popularizing it in national languages. The golden era of the Polish Bible is constituted by publishing the New Testament translated by Stanisław Murzynowski in 1553, issuing the Leopolita’s Bible — the first Polish Bible translated by Jan Nicz Leopolita for the Catholic Church in 1561, editing the Jakub Wujek Bible in 1599 for Jesuits and the Gdańsk Bible in 1632, translated by Daniel Mikołajewski.

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