Wasyl Ciapiński
1604) was a Belarusian-Lithuanian noble, humanist, educator, writer, publisher and translator from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania known for translating the Bible into the Belarusian language. He was behind the printing of the "Moscow Gospel" in the 1570s, and is regarded as one of the early facilitators of Belarusian printed literature. His Bible is sometimes understood to have been printed in Ukrainian but is today generally regarded as Belarusian language.
Also recorded as Vasil Tsyapinski · Vasil Tsiapinski
Wasyl Ciapiński
Лобачев Владимир. Base: File:Vasil Ciapinski. Васіль Цяпінскі (1919).jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- Wasyl Ciapiński was born in 1540. · Ciapina.
- Died
- Wasyl Ciapiński's death is not recorded and the exact fate is unknown. · Ciapina.
- Nationality
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Occupation
- translator · writer · typographer · humanist · publisher · theologian
- Fields
- humanism · literature · translating activity · publishing
- Languages
- Church Slavonic · Ruthenian · Belarusian
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1604) was a Belarusian-Lithuanian noble, humanist, educator, writer, publisher and translator from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania known for translating the Bible into the Belarusian language. He was behind the printing of the "Moscow Gospel" in the 1570s, and is regarded as one of the early facilitators of Belarusian printed literature. His Bible is sometimes understood to have been printed in Ukrainian but is today generally regarded as Belarusian language.
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A widely reproduced “portrait” of Wasyl Ciapiński, first published in 1919 by Belarusian bibliophile Ramuald Ziamkievič, has been shown to be based on a 1626 engraved likeness of the French Renaissance architect Philibert de l'Orme. Despite its non-authentic origin, this adapted image circulated throughout the 20th century and became a canonical but historically inaccurate representation of Ciapiński.
Евангелие Василия Тяпинского. Из библиотеки Антониево-Сийского монастыря.
Евангелие. Василия Тяпинского, не позднее 1580. Из библиотеки Антониево-Сийского монастыря
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- 1.Lech Szczucki. Filozofia i myśl społeczna XVI wieku. Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe. 363. 1978.
- 2.Science in Russia: 2004 "educator Vasiliy Tyapinsky (circa 1540-1604) of 'the recently printed Moscow Gospel' which was also mentioned by Byelorussian educator Simon Budny in his foreword to the New Testament of 1574."
- 3.Soviet Byelorussia: Валентина Петровна Бородина - 1972 - 169 "... Byelorussians as a nation during which the Byelorussian language and national culture evolved. This process was greatly facilitated by the work of Georgi Skorina, Vasili Tyapinsky, Simon Budnyi, Simeon Polotsky and Lavrenti Zizanii. ..."
- 4.The Lithuanian-Rus'commonwealth, the Polish domination, and the ... Nicholas L. Chirovsky - 1984 "Only a few years later, in the early 1580s, Tyapinsky, a Unitarian, also published parts of the Bible in Ukrainian. There were also other attempts to translate and publish the Holy Scriptures in their entirety or in parts "
- 5.Чаховіч, Уладзіслаў. Да пытання аб паходжанні партрэтнай выявы Цяпінскага (On the Origin of the So-Called Portrait of Wasyl Ciapinski). Даклады ўдзельнікаў круглага стала «Краязнаўчы рух на Полаччыне: вопыт, дасягненні і магчымасці» (13 сакавіка 2025). 2025.
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