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.

The Salamanca theologians, with the authorization of the Spanish Inquisition, issued a new thoroughly-revised edition of them in their Latin Bible of 1584.

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