COVERDALE, Miles

COVERDALE, Miles
(c. 1488-1569)
Miles Coverdale was a translator of the Bible and bishop of Exeter. He was most likely born in York. After becoming an Augustinian friar, he went on to be educated at Cambridge. Later in life he received further education from the universities at Wittenberg and Tübingen. Although he had taken holy orders, by 1528 he had rejected priest's vestments, which he would continue to do through­out his life, and began preaching against the Mass, confession, and image wor­ship. He soon left England for Europe and in 1534 received a commission from a merchant in Antwerp for a translation of the entire Bible into English, which he completed in 1535. He relied on various sources for his work, including the Vulgate, the Zurich translation of 1531, Martin Luther's* translation, and the work of William Tyndale,* whom he had assisted with his translation of the Pentateuch. The first Coverdale Bible was transported to England, where it met with approval; in 1539 Coverdale revised his work, thus forming the basis for the Great Bible, which would be distributed in churches throughout England.
Coverdale went once more into exile in 1540 after his supporter Thomas Cromwell was executed. Around this time he married Elizabeth Macheson, a Scottish exile, and they traveled first to Denmark and then to Germany, where Coverdale was appointed assistant minister and headmaster of the town school in Bergzabern. After the death of Henry VIII,* Coverdale returned to England, where he enjoyed royal favor. In August 1551 he was appointed bishop of Exeter, an office he held until Mary I* ascended the throne. When she attempted to imprison him on charges of unpaid debts, the king of Denmark appealed on Coverdale's behalf, and he was released into exile once more. He returned to England during the reign of Elizabeth I* and remained there until his death in 1569. His work has been widely recognized as the first complete English trans­lation of the Bible and helped form the basis for the King James,* or Authorized Version, in 1611.
Bibliography
J. F. Mozley, Coverdale and His Bibles, 1953.
Jean Akers

Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary. . 2001.

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