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Jakub Wujek SJ (ur. 1541 w Wągrowcu, zm. 27 lipca 1597 w Krakowie) – polski duchowny katolicki, jezuita, doktor teologii, rektor Jezuickiej Akademii Wileńskiej, rektor Kolegium jezuitów w Poznaniu, autor przekładu Biblii na język polski.
Jakub Wujek (1541 – 27 April 1597) was a Polish Jesuit, religious writer, Doctor of Theology, Vice-Chancellor of the Vilnius Academy and translator of the Bible into Polish. He is well-known for his translation of the Bible into Polish: the Wujek Bible .
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The Jakub Wujek Bible (Polish: Biblia Jakuba Wujka) was the main Polish Bible translation used in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland from the late 16th century till the mid-20th century.
This Bible was superseded by the new translation of the Jesuit Jakub Wujek (c.1540 - Kraków 1593) that became known as the Jakub Wujek Bible. Wujek criticized the Leopolita and non-Catholic Bible versions and spoke very favorably of the Polish of the Brest Bible, but asserted that it was full of heresies and of errors in translation.
Jakub Wujek has 21 books on Goodreads with 13 ratings. Jakub Wujek’s most popular book is Biblia to jest Ksiegi starego i Nowego Testamentu.
Priest Jakub Wujek didn't see the complete Bible being published. He died in Krakow on the 27th of July 1597. The complete translation was then supervised by editors and censors. The complete Bible was published two years after Wujek's death in 1599.
The author, on the basis of the study of the commentaries and prefaces to Wujek’s Bible of 1599, depicts the image of the Jews, their language and their customs as it was presented by Jakub Wujek and his contemporaneous fellow Jesuits.
