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FABRI See also:FABER Or FABRY (surnamed STAPULENSIS), JACOBUS [Jacques Lefevre d'ftaples] (c . 1455-c . 1536), a See also:pioneer of the See also:Protestant See also:movement in See also:France, was See also:born of humble parents at Staples, in Pas de See also:Calais, See also:Picardy, about 1455 . He appears to have been possessed of considerable means . He had already been ordained See also:priest when he entered the university of See also:Paris for higher See also:education . Hermonymus of See also:Sparta was his See also:master in See also:Greek . He visited See also:Italy before 1486, for he heard the lectures of See also:Argyropulus, who died in that See also:year; he formed a friendship with See also:Paulus See also:Aemilius of See also:Verona . In 1492 he again travelled in Italy, studying in See also:Florence, See also:Rome and See also:Venice, making himself See also:familiar with the writings of See also:Aristotle, though greatly influenced by the Platonic See also:philosophy . Returning to Paris, he became See also:professor in the See also:college of See also:Cardinal Lemoine . Among his famous pupils were F . W . Vatable and See also:Farel; his connexion with the latter See also:drew him to the Calvinistic See also:side of the movement of reform .
At this See also:time he began the publication, with See also:critical vpparatus, of See also:Boetius (De Arithmetica), and Aristotle's Physics (1492), See also:Ethics (1497), See also:Meta-physics (1501) and Politics (15o6)
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In 1507 he took up his See also:residence in the See also:Benedictine See also:Abbey of St Germain See also:des Pres, near Paris; this was due to his connexion with the See also:family of Briconnet (one of whom was the See also:superior), especially with See also: His See also:complete version of the See also:Bible (1530), on the basis of See also:Jerome, took the same See also:place as his version of the New Testament . Margaret (now See also:queen of See also:Navarre) led him to take See also:refuge (1531) at See also:Nerac from persecution . He is said to have been visited (1533) by See also:Calvin on his See also:flight from France . He died in 1536 or 1537 . See C . H . See also:Graf, Essai sur la See also:vie et See also:les ecrils (1842); G . Bonet-See also:Maury, in A . See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1898) . (A . |
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