Pablo de Coronel facts for kids

Pablo de Coronel, also known as Paul Nuñez Coronel, was an important Spanish scholar. He was born around 1480 in Segovia and passed away on September 30, 1534, in Salamanca. He became a well-known teacher of the Hebrew language at the University of Salamanca.

Early Life and Conversion

Pablo de Coronel first trained to be a rabbi, which is a Jewish religious leader. However, before 1492, he decided to change his religion and became a Christian. This happened around the time when Jewish people were asked to leave Spain.

Working on the Complutensian Polyglot Bible

A powerful church leader named Cardinal Ximenez de Cisneros asked Pablo de Coronel for help. He wanted Pablo to work on a very special project. This project was called the Complutensian Polyglot. It was a huge Bible that showed the text in many different languages side by side.

Pablo de Coronel worked with other scholars, including Alfonso de Alcalá and Alfonso de Zamora. Their main job was to create a new Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible. This was a very important task that helped many people study the Bible.

Later Career and Writings

After his work on the Polyglot Bible, Pablo de Coronel continued his academic career. He was one of three scholars who took over the teaching position for Hebrew at the University of Salamanca after Alfonso de Zamora.

He also wrote a book that explained the ideas of an earlier scholar named Nicolas de Lyre. This book was called "Additiones ad Librum Nicolai Lirani de Differentiis Translationum (Verborum)." Today, we only have this book as a handwritten copy.