Gilbert Génébrard

Gilbert Génébrard (12 December 1535, in Riom, Puy-de-Dôme – 16 February 1597, in Semur, Côte-d'Or) was a French Benedictine exegete and Orientalist.

A year later he was appointed professor of Hebrew and exegesis at the Collège Royal and at the same time held the office of prior at Saint-Denis de La Chartre in Paris.

About 1578 he went to Rome where he was honourably received by Pope Sixtus V and stood in close relation to Cardinal Allen, Baronius, Bosio, and other ecclesiastical celebrities.

Génebrard saw that further opposition would be useless and, on 15 November 1593, sent his submission to the king ("Revue des questions historiques", Paris, 1866, I 616, note).

Génébrard translated many rabbinic writings into Latin, wrote one of the best commentaries on the Psalms: "Psalmi Davidis vulgatâ editione, calendario hebraeo, syro, graeco, latino, hymnis, argumentis, et commentariis, etc.