Hadrian à Saravia
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| Born | 1532 Hesdin, Artois, Spanish Netherlands (now France) |
| Died | January 15, 1612 (aged 79–80) Canterbury, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Dutch/British |
| Other names | Adrian Saravia, Adrianus Saravia |
| Known for | Translator of King James Version of the Bible |
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Hadrian à Saravia, sometimes called Hadrian Saravia, Adrien Saravia, or Adrianus Saravia (1532 – 15 January 1612) was a Protestant theologian and pastor from the
Early years
Saravia was born in
Channel Islands
He went from there to England and was sent as an
In 1568 he became rector of the parish of
Southampton
From 1571 to 1578, he held the position of headmaster at the Grammar School in Southampton. His students included Robert Ashley, Nicholas Fuller, Francis Markham, Edward Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lake, and Josuah Sylvester.[1][6]
Ghent and Leiden
By late 1580 he was living in Ghent and was an inspector of the theological school and active in religious affairs.[1] With Ghent under threat by the Spanish, he moved to Leiden in November 1582.[1] He was appointed a professor of theology at Leiden University on 13 August 1584.[1] From Leiden he wrote (9 June 1585) to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley advising the assumption of the protectorate of the Low Countries by Elizabeth. He left the United Provinces when his complicity in a political plot was discovered.[2]
Return to England
He published several treatises defending the Episcopacy against
On 6 December 1595 he was admitted to a
In 1607 he was nominated one of the translators of the
On 23 March 1610 he exchanged Lewisham for the rectory of Great Chart, Kent. He died at Canterbury on 15 January 1612, and was buried in the cathedral.[2] His second wife, Margaret Wiits, erected a memorial to him at the Cathedral.[8]
Theology
Saravia is one of the first Protestant mission theologians. In his ecclesiological writing De diversis ministrorum Evangelii gradibus sicut a domino fuerunt instituti of 1590, he referred to the Church’s missionary command, which he believes is valid for all times. In the episcopate, which goes back to the apostles (apostolic succession), the Church has the authority to send out missionaries. This view was criticized by Protestant theologians, among them Theodor Beza and Johann Gerhard, who, like many of the Reformation and Old Protestant theologians, believed that the missionary command had already been fully fulfilled in the time of the Apostles.[9]
Sources
- Werner Raupp (Ed.): Mission in Quellentexten. Geschichte der Deutschen Evangelischen Mission von der Reformation bis zur Weltmissionskonferenz Edinburgh 1910, Erlangen/Bad Liebenzell 1990 (ISBN 3-87214-238-0 / 3-88002-424-3), S. 61–63 (Introduction; – Sources: De diversis ministrorum evangelii gradibus, sicut a domino fuerunt instituti […], London 1590, p. 37-39; – Literature).
Notes
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24664. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d e f One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gordon, Alexander (1911). "Saravia, Adrian". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 207.
- ^ Nijenhuis 1980, p. 11.
- ^ "Hadrian Saravia". King James Bible Translators. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ Nijenhuis 1980, p. 21.
- ^ Nijenhuis 1980, p. 36.
- ^ Hall, Isaac H (1881). The revised New Testament and history of revision... Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros.
- ^ Quarterly Review of the Guernsey Society, Vol XIV No 1, Spring 1958
- ^ Werner Raupp (Ed.): Mission in Quellentexten, 1990 (see above, Sources), S. 61.
References
- Nijenhuis, Willem (1 January 1980). Adrianus Saravia (c. 1532–1613): Dutch Calvinist, First Reformend Defender of the English Episcopal Church Order on the Basis of the Ius Divinum. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-06194-0.
- McClure, Alexander (1858). The Translators Revived. R. E. Publications.
- Nicolson, Adam. (2003) God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. New York: HarperCollins ISBN 0-06-095975-4
- Adrian Saravia, Rector of Tatenhill 1588–1595
External links
- Saravia, Hadrian à, De Sacra Eucharistica trans. Denison, George A (London 1855) at Project Canterbury site.
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