William Tyndale

William Tyndale
noun
English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536)
Instance Hypernyms: ↑interpreter, ↑translator, ↑martyr, ↑sufferer

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William Tyndale [William Tyndale]
(c. 1494–1536) an English writer who translated the Bible. His work as a ↑translator was opposed in England and he was forced to live in Germany, where he produced the first English version of the Bible between 1525 and 1531. This later became the basis for the ↑King James Version of 1611. He was burnt alive in Belgium as a ↑heretic.

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