François Vatable

François Vatable[1] (late 15th century – 16 March 1547) was a French humanist scholar, a hellenist and hebraist.

At a later date a royal grant conferred upon Vatable the title of Abbot of Bellozane, with the benefices attached thereto.

Vatable is regarded as the restorer of Hebrew scholarship in France, and his lectures in Paris attracted a large audience including Jews.

To the edition of the Minor Prophets he added the commentary of the famous Jewish Rabbi David Kimhi.

These were reprinted together with remarks of Hugo Grotius, by Vogel, under the misleading title: Francisci Vatabli annotationes in Psalmos (1767).