Estienne, Robert (1503-59). Scholar, printer, publisher, and bookseller, father of Henri II Estienne . Royal printer of Latin and Hebrew (from 1539) and Greek (1544-51), he published many editions of the classics (Terence, Plautus) and neo-Latin writers (Budé, Macrin); also grammar and lexicography: Thesaurus linguae latinae (1531), Dictionarium latinogallicum (1538), Dictionnaire français-latin (1539), valuable records of bilingual interaction; finally editions of the Bible in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, based on early manuscripts in Paris. Because of Sorbonne opposition to these Bibles, Estienne moved to Geneva in 1551 and there published Calvin, Bèze, and new editions of the Bible.
[Peter Sharratt]
