Georg Mayr
Jesuit and translator of the Bible
About Georg Mayr
Lived 1564 – 1623 (aged 58–59). Georg Mayr was a translator, bible translator, university teacher, classical philologist, regular priest and preacher.
Title page (Augsburg 1613) of Mayr's Greek translation of the catechism of Canisius. Georg Mayr (Latin Georgius Marius) (1564–1623) was a Bavarian Jesuit priest and Hebrew grammarian.
Mayr spent most of career teaching Hebrew language. His Hebrew grammar (Augsburg, 1616) went through many editions and he published many Hebrew translations. Mayr also published the illustrated version of the catechism of Peter Canisius, and then translations into Greek (Ingolstadt 1595) and Hebrew (1620).
Works Hebrew New Testament, 1620 Hebrew Grammar - Institutiones linguae Hebraicae, Augsburg, 1616 Fasciculus Sacrarum Litaniarum
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Jesuit and translator of the Bible
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Georg Mayr was born in 1564 in Rain.
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Georg Mayr died on 25 April 1623 in Rome.
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Georg Mayr was a translator, bible translator, university teacher, classical philologist, regular priest and preacher.
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