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Jakub Wujek
Born1541
Wągrowiec, Poland
Died27 April 1597 (aged 58)
Kraków
NationalityPolish

Jakub Wujek (1541 – 27 April 1597) was a Polish Jesuit, religious writer, Doctor of Theology, Vice-Chancellor of the Vilnius Academy and translator of the Bible into Polish.

He is well-known for his translation of the Bible into Polish: the Wujek Bible.

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Jakub Wujek

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Jakub Wujek (1541 – 27 April 1597) was a Polish Jesuit, religious writer, Doctor of Theology, Vice-Chancellor of the Vilnius Academy and translator of...

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Jakub Wujek Bible

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The Jakub Wujek Bible (Polish: Biblia Jakuba Wujka) was the main Polish Bible translation used in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland from...

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Wujek

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Wujek (literally "uncle," in Polish) can refer to: Wujek Coal Mine, a mine where 9 workers were killed during a famous 1981 strike Jakub Wujek, a 16th-century...

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Bible translations into Polish

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the new translation of the Jesuit Jakub Wujek (c.1540 - Kraków 1593) that became known as the Jakub Wujek Bible. Wujek criticized the Leopolita and non-Catholic...

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Polish language

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in Polish"). The earliest treatise on Polish orthography was written by Jakub Parkosz [pl] around 1470. The first printed book in Polish appeared in either...

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Bible

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Counter-Reformation. Important biblical translations of this period include the Polish Jakub Wujek Bible (Biblia Jakuba Wujka) from 1535, and the English King James/Authorized...

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Renaissance in Poland

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seen in numerous bible translations, the most famous being the Wujek's Bible by Jakub Wujek, published in 1599. The nobility, however, cared about more than...

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List of years in literature

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literature – The Phoenix Nest, Brevis commentarius de Islandia (Jónsson), Jakub Wujek Bible 1594 in literature – The Unfortunate Traveller (Nashe), Theatrum...

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Giorgio Biandrata

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the communion of Rome. His end is obscure. According to the Jesuit, Jakub Wujek, he was strangled by a nephew (Giorgio, son of Alphonso) at Gyulafehérvár...

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The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception

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in Kraków or perhaps the first translator of the Bible into Polish, Jakub Wujek. A Latin text, approved by the Holy See, was released from the press...

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History of Poles in Lithuania

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Piotr Skarga (1536–1612), the first rector of the University of Vilnius, Jakub Wujek (1541–1597), and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640). From 1397 to...

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Lel and Polel

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and Polel existed during his lifetime in Greater Poland. The priest Jakub Wujek also mentions "Lelipoleli". Initially, the authenticity of the gods Lel...

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New Testament in Silesian

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Testament into the Silesian language from the 16th-century Polish language Jakub Wujek Bible. For the sake of this translation the translator developed a specific...

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List of Jesuits

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Garry Wills, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who was briefly a Jesuit Jakub Wujek, scholar and translator Georges Xenopulos, Greek bishop Louis Zhang Jiashu...

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Translation

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translations as Martin Luther's into German (the New Testament, 1522), Jakub Wujek's into Polish (1599, as revised by the Jesuits), and William Tyndale's...

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Fenenna of Kuyavia

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Leszek. Fenenna's name was chosen from the Bible (later translated by Jakub Wujek), as one of the two wives of Elkanah, father of the Prophet Samuel. This...

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Dzidzilela

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Guagnini, Maciej Stryjkowski, Marcin and Joachim Bielski, and the priest Jakub Wujek in the following variations: Dzidzilia, Zizilia, Zyzylia, Zezylia. The...

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