Eeltsje Boates Folkertsma
Frisian writer and bible translator
About Eeltsje Boates Folkertsma
Lived 1893 – 1968 (aged 74–75). Eeltsje Boates Folkertsma was a Dutch translator, theologian and bible translator.
Eeltsje Boates Folkertsma (13 November 1893, Ferwert – 1 January 1968, Franeker) was a West Frisian language writer and a Protestant skilled as a translator. He worked with Geart Aeilco Wumkes in translating the Old Testament (West Frisian:Alde Testamint) in 1943.
The major work was carried out by Wumkes with the translation of the Bible in West Frisian with the New Testament (West Frisian: Nije Testamint) published in 1933 and the Old Testament (West Frisian: Alde Testamint) in 1943. The complete Bible was published in 1943 (West Frisian: Bibel).
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Frisian writer and bible translator
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Eeltsje Boates Folkertsma was born on 13 November 1893 in Ferwert.
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Eeltsje Boates Folkertsma died in 1968 in Franeker.
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Eeltsje Boates Folkertsma was a translator, theologian and bible translator.
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Eeltsje Boates Folkertsma was Dutch.
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