This article contains a concise biographical timeline for Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples (c.1455-1536). He authored a French version of the New Testament that went on to be the basis of all other French New Testaments.
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c.1455 – He is born at Étaples, in Picardy.
before 1486 – He visits Italy and hears the lectures of John Argyropulus.
1492 – He visits Italy and studies in Florence, Rome, and Venice. He publishes Paraphrases of the Whole of Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy.
1494 – He publishes Introduction to the Metaphysics and Introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics.
1496 – He publishes Logical Introductions.
1506 – He publishes Politics.
1507 – He takes residence in the Benedictine Abbey of St Germain des Prés, near Paris.
1509 – He publishes Quintuplex Psalterium: Gallicum, Romanum, Hebraicum, Vetus, Conciliatum.
1512 – He publishes S. Pauli Epistolae xiv. ex vulgata editione, adjecta intelligentia ex Graeco cum commentariis.
1517 – He publishes De Maria Magdalena et triduo Christi disceptatio.
1520 – He leaves Paris and moves to Meaux.
1523 – He becomes vicar-general to Bishop Briconnet. He also publishes his French version of the New Testament.
1525 – He is taken captive at the battle of Pavia. He is released some months later and issues Le Psautier de David.
1526 – He becomes the royal librarian at Blois.
1528 – He publishes his version of the Pentateuch.
1530 – He publishes his complete version of the Bible.
1531 – He takes refuge from persecution in Nérac.
1533 – He receives a visit from John Calvin.
1536 – He dies in Nérac.
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References;
1 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lefèvre_d%27Étaples
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