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William Tyndale

English Bible translator and reformer
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William Tyndale
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Facts

21 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[25]
Date of birth
1494
Date of death
October 6, 1536
Place of birth
Gloucester
Place of death
Vilvoorde
Country of citizenship
Kingdom of England[10]
Occupation
theologian, linguist, translator, writer, Bible translator, Christian reformer, scholar, priest, Protestant reformer[11][12][13][14]
Field of work
Christianity, Bible translation, church reform[15][16][17]
Educated at
Hertford College, Magdalen College School, Katharine Lady Berkeley's School[18][19][20]
Religion or worldview
Catholic Church, Protestantism[23][24]
Notable work
Tyndale Bible, The Practyse of Prelates[21][22]
Cause of death
strangling[26]
Work location
England[29]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English, Hebrew, Ancient Greek[39][40][41]
Described by source
Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, The New Student's Reference Work, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]
Family name
Tyndale[27]
Given name
William[28]
Manner of death
capital punishment[30]
Name in native language
William Tyndale[42]
Writing language
English
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 99
ISNI
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VIAF cluster ID
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Library of Congress Authorities ID
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GND ID
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Angelicum ID
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Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID
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BAnQ authority ID
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BBC Things ID
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BIBSYS ID
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BabelNet ID
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Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
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Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts person ID
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British Museum person or institution ID
161944
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
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CERL Thesaurus ID
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Canadiana Name Authority ID
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DDB person (GND) ID
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De Agostini ID
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Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID
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Digital portrait index person (GND) ID
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Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
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Encyclopædia Universalis ID
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FAST ID
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FES digital collections entity ID
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Find a Grave memorial ID
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Freebase ID
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Geni profile ID
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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
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Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
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Harper's tag
william-tyndale
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
62895
ISBN publisher prefix
978-1-58997
IdRef ID
028144759
Interlingual Index ID
i97230
IxTheo authority ID
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J9U entity ID
987007269287005171
Jewish Virtual Library ID
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KBR person ID
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Krugosvet article (archived)
kultura_i_obrazovanie/religiya/TINDAL_UILYAM.html
Lex ID
William_Tyndale
Libraries Australia ID
35559857
Library of Congress Classification
BR350.T8
LibriVox author ID
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Libris-URI
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MoEML ID
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NDL Authority ID
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NE.se ID
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NL CR AUT ID
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NLA Trove people ID
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NLB authority ID (Belarus)
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NLP ID
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NNDB people ID
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NSK (VIAF) ID
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NSK ID
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NUKAT ID
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Namuwiki ID
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National Library of Brazil ID
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National Library of Ireland ID
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National Library of Korea ID
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National Library of Poland MMS ID
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National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
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National Library of Wales Authority ID
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National Portrait Gallery (London) person ID
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Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
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Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
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Open Library ID
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OpenMLOL author ID
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID
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Oxford Reference overview ID
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Parsifal cluster ID
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Penguin Random House author ID
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Post-Reformation Digital Library author ID
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Project Gutenberg author ID
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Quora topic ID
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RERO ID (legacy)
A003916560
RILM ID
140898
Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae ID
RETE087272
SBN author ID
UBOV573430
SELIBR ID
225015
SNARC ID
sortition
SVKKL authority ID
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Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID
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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
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Slovak National Library (VIAF) ID
vtls008785570
The Literary Encyclopedia person ID
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Topic's main category
Category:William Tyndale
Treccani ID
william-tyndale
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
william-tyndale
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
578227
Vatican Library VcBA ID
495/108854
WeRelate person ID
William_Tyndale_(4)
Wellcome Collection concept ID
vavzrpku
WikiTree person ID
Tyndale-35
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
11374328-n
WorldCat Entities ID
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Yale LUX ID
person/9dbd1304-d197-4353-80c3-936caba692e2
Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID
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🔗 Connections
Occupation 5
writer, translator, linguist, theologian, Bible translator
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
Languages spoken, written or signed 3
English, Hebrew, Ancient Greek
Field of work 2
Christianity, Bible translation
Religion or worldview 2
Catholic Church, Protestantism
Cause of death 1
strangling
Country of citizenship 1
Kingdom of England
Educated at 1
Hertford College
Given name 1
William
Instance of 1
human
Manner of death 1
capital punishment
Place of birth 1
Gloucester
Place of death 1
Vilvoorde
SNARC ID 1
sortition
Sex or gender 1
male
Work location 1
England
Works by author 1
Tyndale Bible
Writing language 1
English
← FactGrid item ID 1
Max Eitingon
← Relative 1
William Linn Westermann
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Summary

William Tyndale was born in 1494[1] in Gloucester[2]. He died on October 6, 1536[3], in Vilvoorde[4]. He worked as a theologian[5], linguist[6], translator[7], writer[8], and Bible translator[9].

Why It Matters

Works attributed to William Tyndale include Tyndale Bible[43], a version, edition or translation[44].

FAQs

Where was William Tyndale born?

William Tyndale's place of birth was Gloucester[2].

Where did William Tyndale die?

William Tyndale passed away in Vilvoorde[4].

What did William Tyndale do for work?

William Tyndale worked as a theologian[5], linguist[6], translator[7], writer[8], and Bible translator[9].

Where did William Tyndale go to school?

William Tyndale was educated at Hertford College[18], Magdalen College School[19], and Katharine Lady Berkeley's School[20].

Related Entities

England Gloucester Kingdom of England Vilvoorde

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [16] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [17] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [8] ↑ . Library of the World's Best Literature. wikidata.org.
  15. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [11] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [12] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [13] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [14] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [1] ↑ . Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. wikidata.org.
  24. [3] ↑ . Find a Grave. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [36] ↑ . bartleby.com. bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [39] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  40. [40] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  41. [41] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  42. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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    "Changed claim references: Date of death: 6 October 1536, source for date of death from Store norske leksikon (OKA bot task 2)"
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    Harper's tag → william-tyndale
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