Gregory Martin

British scholar
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Born:
c. 1540, Maxfield, Sussex, England
Died:
October 28, 1582, Reims, France

Gregory Martin (born c. 1540, Maxfield, Sussex, England—died October 28, 1582, Reims, France) was a Roman Catholic biblical scholar who served as the principal translator of the Latin Vulgate Bible into English for the Douai-Reims Bible. This version was the basis for Bishop Richard Challoner’s revised editions (1749, 1750, 1752), which were in turn the basis for the standard Catholic Bible in English until the 20th century. Martin’s phraseology influenced the Anglican translators of the Authorized, or King James, Version (1611). One of the earliest students at St. John’s College, Oxford, Martin became proficient in Greek and Hebrew and befriended ...(100 of 211 words)