Wiktor Bythner
Wiktoria Bythner, Victorinus Bythner (born 1605 in Głębowice near Wadowice, died around 1670 in Cornwall), Polish hebrewist, grammarian, Oxford teacher, physician. He came from a Protestant minority in Malopolska, was a son of Bartholomew, a senior of Evangelical-Reformed Church in Małopolska, a younger brother of John, also a cleric, prominent theologian of the Polish One. From 1629 he studied at the University of Frankfurt (Oder), from 1631 to 1633 - after obtaining a scholarship from the Calvinist Synod, he was educated in Leiden. In 1635 he moved to England, taking up the post of lecturer in Hebrew at the Christ Church College of Oxford. In 1643, after the outbreak of civil war in England and the seizure of Oxford by the troops of King Charles I, Bythner moved to Cambridge and then to London.
In 1651, he returned to Oxford to take up his post as lecturer. After a dozen or so years (around 1664) he moved permanently to Cornwall, where he practiced medicine. He was appreciated for his ability in languages by his contemporary antiquarian and Oxford University historian Anthony Wood. He published in Latin several works, of which the grammar of the Hebrew language from 1638 survived, and the Psalter of David from 1645, resumed in the nineteenth century. Bibliography
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