Georg Mayr

Georg Mayr (Latin Georgius Marius) (1564–1623) was a Bavarian Jesuit priest and Hebrew grammarian.[1]

Title page (Augsburg 1613) of Mayr's Greek translation of the catechism of Canisius.

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).[2]

Works

Hebrew New Testament, 1620
Hebrew Grammar - Institutiones linguae Hebraicae, Augsburg, 1616
Fasciculus Sacrarum Litaniarum

References

Biblical and Near Eastern studies: essays in honor of William Sanford La Sor, Gary A. Tuttle - 1978
Petrus Canisius: Reformer der Kirche : Festschrift zum 400. Julius Oswald, Peter Rummel - 1996 "Kardinal Bellarmin selbst schreibt an Georg Mayr SJ (1564-1623), der 1613 die Bilder-Ausgabe des Kleinen Katechismus des Canisius besorgt und ihn auch ins Griechische (Ingolstadt 1595) und Hebräische (Ingolstadt 1620) übertragen hatte,"

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[1] Biblical and Near Eastern studies: essays in honor of William Sanford La Sor, Gary A. Tuttle - 1978

[2] Petrus Canisius: Reformer der Kirche : Festschrift zum 400. Julius Oswald, Peter Rummel - 1996 "Kardinal Bellarmin selbst schreibt an Georg Mayr SJ (1564-1623), der 1613 die Bilder-Ausgabe des Kleinen Katechismus des Canisius besorgt und ihn auch ins Griechische (Ingolstadt 1595) und Hebräische (Ingolstadt 1620) übertragen hatte,"