William Tyndale is well known as a translator of the Bible into English, and was influenced by the works of prominent Protestant Reformers such as Martin Luther.
35 Facts About William Tyndale
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The work of William Tyndale continued to play a key role in spreading Reformation ideas across the English-speaking world and eventually across the British Empire.
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In 1530, William Tyndale wrote The Practice of Prelates, opposing Henry's plan to seek the annulment of his marriage on the grounds that it contravened scripture.
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In 1535 William Tyndale was arrested, and jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde outside Brussels for over a year.
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In 2002, William Tyndale was placed 26th in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
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William Tyndale was born around 1494 in Melksham Court, Stinchcombe, a village near Dursley, Gloucestershire.
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William Tyndale's family had moved to Gloucestershire at some point in the 15th century, probably as a result of the Wars of the Roses.
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William Tyndale was a gifted linguist and became fluent over the years in French, Greek, Hebrew, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, in addition to English.
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William Tyndale became chaplain at the home of Sir John Walsh at Little Sodbury in Gloucestershire and tutor to his children around 1521.
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William Tyndale's opinions proved controversial to fellow clergymen, and the next year he was summoned before John Bell, the Chancellor of the Diocese of Worcester, although no formal charges were laid at the time.
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William Tyndale left for London in 1523 to seek permission to translate the Bible into English.
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William Tyndale requested help from Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall, a well-known classicist who had praised Erasmus after working together with him on a Greek New Testament.
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William Tyndale preached and studied "at his book" in London for some time, relying on the help of cloth merchant Humphrey Monmouth.
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William Tyndale left England for continental Europe, perhaps at Hamburg, in the spring of 1524, possibly traveling on to Wittenberg.
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William Tyndale began translating the New Testament at this time, possibly in Wittenberg, completing it in 1525 with assistance from Observant Friar William Roy.
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The colophon to William Tyndale's translation of Genesis and the title pages of several pamphlets from this time purported to have been printed by Hans Lufft at Marburg, but this is a false address.
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William Tyndale revised his New Testament and began translating the Old Testament and writing various treatises.
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William Tyndale developed his case in An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue.
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William Tyndale was seized in Antwerp in 1535, and held in the castle of Vilvoorde near Brussels.
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William Tyndale "was strangled to death while tied at the stake, and then his dead body was burned".
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William Tyndale seems to have come out of the Lollard tradition, which was strong in Gloucestershire.
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William Tyndale rejected the then-orthodox view that the scriptures could be interpreted only by approved clergy.
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In translating the Bible, William Tyndale introduced new words into the English language; many were subsequently used in the King James Bible, such as Passover and scapegoat.
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William Tyndale introduced the term mercy seat into English, literally translating Luther's German Gnadenstuhl.
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William Tyndale, citing Erasmus, contended that the Greek New Testament did not support the traditional readings.
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Thomas More commented that searching for errors in the William Tyndale Bible was similar to searching for water in the sea and charged William Tyndale's translation of The Obedience of a Christian Man with having about a thousand false translations.
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Bishop Tunstall of London declared that there were upwards of 2,000 errors in William Tyndale's Bible, having already in 1523 denied William Tyndale the permission required under the Constitutions of Oxford, which were still in force, to translate the Bible into English.
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The Prolegomena in Mombert's William Tyndale's Five Books of Moses show that Tyndale's Pentateuch is a translation of the Hebrew original.
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The William Tyndale Monument was built in 1866 on a hill above his supposed birthplace, North Nibley, Gloucestershire.
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William Tyndale was at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, which became Hertford College in 1874.
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An American Christian publishing house, called William Tyndale House, was named after William Tyndale.
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William Tyndale is honored in the Calendar of saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as a translator and martyr the same day.
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The first biographical film about Tyndale, titled William Tindale, was released in 1937.
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The film God's Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale, was released in 1986.
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William Tyndale was writing at the beginning of the Early Modern English period.