Bar-Hebraeus

Bar-Hebraeus

male, deceased (1286)
Chronicler, Grigorios, bishop, Dr. William Wright, Syriac Orthodox Church saint, euphrates…Syriacists
Bar-Hebraeus (b. 1226 near Malatya, Sultanate of Rûm (modern Turkey) - d. 30 July 1286 in Maraga, Persia) was "catholicos" (bishop) of the Syriac O...
E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge

male, deceased (1934)
Employee of the British Museum, Syriacists, English, philology, orientalism, egyptologist
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (July 27, 1857 - November 23, 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked...

William Wright

male, deceased (1889)
Orientalist, University of Cambridge, British Library, Syriacists, Short history of Syriac literature
William Wright (17 January 1830 - 22 May 1889) was a famous British Orientalist, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Many of...
Alphonse Mingana

Alphonse Mingana

male, deceased (1937)
writer, Syriacists, syriac, assyrian, ottoman empire, Orientalist
Alphonse Mingana (born as Hurmiz Mingana, 1878 Sharansh, village near Zakho, Ottoman Empire (present day Iraq) - 3 December 1937 Birmingham,...

Robert Payne Smith

male, deceased (1895)
canterbury, William Ewart Gladstone, Pembroke College, Oxford, Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford, priest, Chipping Campden…Syriacists
Robert Payne Smith, D.D., M.A. (1819-1895) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church from 1865 until...

Giuseppe Simone Assemani

male, deceased (1768)
Syriacists, lebanese, Vatican Library, Coptic language, archbishop of Tyre, Bibliotheca
Giuseppe Simone Assemani, (1687 - 1768), Lebanese orientalist, was a Maronite of Mount Lebanon. When very young he was sent to the Maronite college...

Francis Crawford Burkitt

male, deceased (1935)
Syriacists, University of Cambridge, Academic, harrow school, British, Trinity College, Cambridge
Francis Crawford Burkitt (September 31864-1935) was a British theologian and scholar. He was Norris Professor of Divinity at the University of...

Theodor Nöldeke

male, deceased (1930)
Syriacists, Encyclopædia Britannica, German, Orientalist, Historiographer of Islam, linguist
Theodor Nöldeke is meant for specialists, many of his books are of interest to the general reader. Some of Nöldeke's studies are included in The Or...
Paul Bedjan

Paul Bedjan

male, deceased (1920)
bishop, Orientalist, theological, priest, printing press, liturgical…Syriacists
Paul Bedjan was a priest of the Chaldean Catholic Church and an orientalist. The son of a Chaldean Catholic family, Bedjan was enrolled a pupil at...
William Cureton

William Cureton

male, deceased (1864)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Anglican, Syriacists, Anglican priest, Christian Hebraist, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
William Cureton (1808-17 June 1864) was an English Orientalist. He was born in Westbury, Shropshire. After being educated at the Adams' Grammar...