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Henry Savile (30 de noviembre de 1549 - 19 de febrero de 1622) fue un erudito británico, rector del Merton College de la Universidad de Oxford, y del Colegio Eton. [1] [2] Fue Miembro del Parlamento de Inglaterra por Bossiney en 1589 y por Dunwich en 1593. [3]
Sir Henry Savile (30 November 1549 – 19 February 1622) [1] was an English scholar and mathematician, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton. [2] He endowed the Savilian chairs of Astronomy and of Geometry at Oxford University, and was one of the scholars who translated the New Testament from Greek into English.
Henry Savile (30 de noviembre de 1549 - 19 de febrero de 1622) fue un erudito británico, rector del Merton College de la Universidad de Oxford, y del Colegio Eton. Fue Miembro del Parlamento de Inglaterra por Bossiney en 1589 y por Dunwich en 1593.
Henry Savile was an English mathematician who founded professorships of geometry and astronomy at Oxford.
Henry Savile was a member of the Second Oxford Company having responsibility for translating the Gospels, Acts, and book of Revelation. While Thomas Ravis was the company's head until his passing in 1609, Henry Savile took a leading role in the translation.
29 de feb. de 2016 · This article argues that Henry Savile's widely admired Tacitus of 1591 should not be read as an implied call for a more aggressive English stance against Spanish advances on the Continent (as one recent article suggests), but precisely for a more restrained and prudential approach.
Henry Savile’s translation of Tacitus’s Histories and Agricola published in 1591 was the first in the English language and is widely considered the most important English edition of a Roman historian of its time.
