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Adalbert Merx
Adalbert Merx (2 November 1838 Bleicherode – 6 August 1909 Heidelberg) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist.
Adalbert Merx (2 November 1838 Bleicherode – 6 August 1909 Heidelberg) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist.
Alphonse Mingana
Alphonse Mingana was an Assyrian theologian, historian, Syriacist, orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle ...
Alphonse Mingana was an Assyrian theologian, historian, Syriacist, orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle ...
Andreas Masius
Andreas Masius (or Maes) (November 30, 1514 – April 7, 1573) was a Catholic priest, humanist and one of the first European syriacists.
Andreas Masius (or Maes) (November 30, 1514 – April 7, 1573) was a Catholic priest, humanist and one of the first European syriacists.
Antoine Guillaumont
Antoine Guillaumont (1915–2000) was a French archaeologist and Syriac scholar.
Antoine Guillaumont (1915–2000) was a French archaeologist and Syriac scholar.
Antonio Maria Ceriani
Antonio Maria Ceriani (May 2, 1828 – March 2, 1907) was an Italian prelate and scholar.
Antonio Maria Ceriani (May 2, 1828 – March 2, 1907) was an Italian prelate and scholar.
Bar Hebraeus
Bar-Hebraeus (1226 in the village Ebro (Izoli, turk.: Kuşsarayı) near Malatya, Sultanate of Rûm (modern Turkey, today province Elazig) – 30 July 1286 in Maraga, Persia) was a catholicos (bis...
Bar-Hebraeus (1226 in the village Ebro (Izoli, turk.: Kuşsarayı) near Malatya, Sultanate of Rûm (modern Turkey, today province Elazig) – 30 July 1286 in Maraga, Persia) was a catholicos (bis...
Bar-Hebraeus
Gregory Bar-Hebraeus (1226 in the village Ebro (Izoli, turk.: Kuşsarayı) near Malatya, Sultanate of Rûm (modern Turkey, today province Elazig) – 30 July 1286 in Maraga, Persia) was a catholico...
Gregory Bar-Hebraeus (1226 in the village Ebro (Izoli, turk.: Kuşsarayı) near Malatya, Sultanate of Rûm (modern Turkey, today province Elazig) – 30 July 1286 in Maraga, Persia) was a catholico...
Baselios Augen I
Catholicos Baselios Augen I (26 June 1884 - 8 December 1975) is the fourth Catholicose of the East of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
Catholicos Baselios Augen I (26 June 1884 - 8 December 1975) is the fourth Catholicose of the East of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
Carl Bezold
Carl Bezold (1859 – 1922) was a German orientalist.
Carl Bezold (1859 – 1922) was a German orientalist.
Carl Brockelmann
Carl Brockelmann (1868–1956), German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation.
Carl Brockelmann (1868–1956), German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation.
E. A. Wallis Budge
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East.
Eberhard Nestle
Eberhard Nestle was a German biblical scholar, textual critic, Orientalist, editor of Novum Testamentum Graece, and the father of Erwin Nestle.
Eberhard Nestle was a German biblical scholar, textual critic, Orientalist, editor of Novum Testamentum Graece, and the father of Erwin Nestle.
Eduard Sachau
Karl Eduard Sachau (20 July 1845 – 1930) was a German orientalist.
Karl Eduard Sachau (20 July 1845 – 1930) was a German orientalist.
Francis Crawford Burkitt
Francis Crawford Burkitt (3 September 1864–1935) was a British theologian and scholar.
Francis Crawford Burkitt (3 September 1864–1935) was a British theologian and scholar.
François Nau
François Nau (May 13, 1864 at Thil – September 2, 1931 at Paris) was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages.
François Nau (May 13, 1864 at Thil – September 2, 1931 at Paris) was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages.
Geoffrey Khan
Geoffrey Khan, is a Professor of Semitic Languages at the University of Cambridge.
Geoffrey Khan, is a Professor of Semitic Languages at the University of Cambridge.
George Gwilliam
George Henry Gwilliam was an English Aramaicist.
George Henry Gwilliam was an English Aramaicist.
George Kiraz
George Anton Kiraz is an Assyrian/Syriac American syriacist, engineer and entrepreneur, best known for his contribution to modern Syriac studies.
George Anton Kiraz is an Assyrian/Syriac American syriacist, engineer and entrepreneur, best known for his contribution to modern Syriac studies.
Giuseppe Simone Assemani
Giuseppe Simone Assemani (or Yusuf ibn Sim'un as-Sim'ani, Joseph Simon Assemani, Ioseph Simonius Assemanus), 1687–1768, was a Lebanese Maronite orientalist.
Giuseppe Simone Assemani (or Yusuf ibn Sim'un as-Sim'ani, Joseph Simon Assemani, Ioseph Simonius Assemanus), 1687–1768, was a Lebanese Maronite orientalist.
Gustav Bickell
Gustav Bickell (7 July 1838 – 15 January 1906) was a German orientalist.
Gustav Bickell (7 July 1838 – 15 January 1906) was a German orientalist.
Iain Torrance
Iain Richard Torrance is President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Iain Richard Torrance is President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Ian Theodor Beelen
Ian Theodor Beelen (b.
Ian Theodor Beelen (b.
Ignatius Afram I Barsoum
Ignatius Afram I Barsoum was the 120th Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Ignatius Afram I Barsoum was the 120th Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Jean Baptiste Abbeloos
Jean Baptiste Abbeloos (15 January 1836–25 February 1906) was a Belgian orientalist and Rector of the University of Leuven.
Jean Baptiste Abbeloos (15 January 1836–25 February 1906) was a Belgian orientalist and Rector of the University of Leuven.
Jessie Payne Margoliouth
Jessie Payne Margoliouth née Smith (1856–1933) was a Syriac scholar.
Jessie Payne Margoliouth née Smith (1856–1933) was a Syriac scholar.
John Gwyn
John Gwyn DD, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Dublin was an English Syriacist.
John Gwyn DD, Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Dublin was an English Syriacist.
Judah Segal
Judah Benzion Segal MC, FBA, often known as Ben (21 June 1912 - 23 October 2003, Edgware, Middlesex) was Professor of Semitic Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Judah Benzion Segal MC, FBA, often known as Ben (21 June 1912 - 23 October 2003, Edgware, Middlesex) was Professor of Semitic Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Louis Cheikhô
Louis Cheikhô, or Sheikho, لويس شيخو, born Rizqallâh Cheikhô was an ethnic Assyrian, Jesuit chaldean priest, Orientalist and Theologian.
Louis Cheikhô, or Sheikho, لويس شيخو, born Rizqallâh Cheikhô was an ethnic Assyrian, Jesuit chaldean priest, Orientalist and Theologian.
Paul Bedjan
Paul Bedjan (27 November 1838 – 9 June 1920) was a priest of the Chaldean Catholic Church and an orientalist.
Paul Bedjan (27 November 1838 – 9 June 1920) was a priest of the Chaldean Catholic Church and an orientalist.
Philip E. Pusey
Philip Edward Pusey was an English Aramaicist.
Philip Edward Pusey was an English Aramaicist.
Pius Zingerle
Pius Zingerle was an Austrian Orientalist.
Pius Zingerle was an Austrian Orientalist.
Polycarpus Augin (Eugene) Aydin
Mor Polycarpus Augin Aydın, born Edip Aydın on June 10, 1971 near Nusaybin, Turkey, is the Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar for the Archdiocese of the Netherlands of the Syriac Orthodox ...
Mor Polycarpus Augin Aydın, born Edip Aydın on June 10, 1971 near Nusaybin, Turkey, is the Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar for the Archdiocese of the Netherlands of the Syriac Orthodox ...
Robert Payne Smith
Robert Payne Smith DD MA (1818–1895) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church from 1865 until 1870, when he was appointed Dean of Canterbury by Que...
Robert Payne Smith DD MA (1818–1895) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church from 1865 until 1870, when he was appointed Dean of Canterbury by Que...
Samir Khalil Samir
Samir Khalil Samir, born 10 January 1938 in Cairo, is an Egyptian Jesuit priest, Islamic scholar, Semitologist, Orientalist, Syriacist and Catholic theologian.
Samir Khalil Samir, born 10 January 1938 in Cairo, is an Egyptian Jesuit priest, Islamic scholar, Semitologist, Orientalist, Syriacist and Catholic theologian.
Sebastian Brock
Sebastian Paul Brock (born 1938, London) is generally acknowledged as the foremost and most influential academic in the field of Syriac language today.
Sebastian Paul Brock (born 1938, London) is generally acknowledged as the foremost and most influential academic in the field of Syriac language today.
Stefano Evodio Assemani
Stefano Evodio Assemani, (1707 - circa 1782), Lebanese orientalist, nephew of Giuseppe Simone Assemani and Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, was the chief assistant of his uncle Giuseppe Simone in his wo...
Stefano Evodio Assemani, (1707 - circa 1782), Lebanese orientalist, nephew of Giuseppe Simone Assemani and Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, was the chief assistant of his uncle Giuseppe Simone in his wo...
Syriacist
A Syriacist or Syrianist is a specialist in Syriac language and Christianity.
A Syriacist or Syrianist is a specialist in Syriac language and Christianity.
Theodor Nöldeke
Theodor Nöldeke (2 March 1836 – 25 December 1930) was a German Semitic scholar, who was born in Harburg and studied in Göttingen, Vienna, Leiden and Berlin.
Theodor Nöldeke (2 March 1836 – 25 December 1930) was a German Semitic scholar, who was born in Harburg and studied in Göttingen, Vienna, Leiden and Berlin.
Thomas Joseph Lamy
Thomas Joseph Lamy (Ohey, Belgium, 27 January 1827 – Leuven, 30 July 1907) was a Belgian Biblical scholar end orientalist.
Thomas Joseph Lamy (Ohey, Belgium, 27 January 1827 – Leuven, 30 July 1907) was a Belgian Biblical scholar end orientalist.
William Cureton
William Cureton (1808 – 17 June 1864) was an English Orientalist.
William Cureton (1808 – 17 June 1864) was an English Orientalist.
William Wright (orientalist)
William Wright (17 January 1830 – 22 May 1889) was a famous British Orientalist, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.
William Wright (17 January 1830 – 22 May 1889) was a famous British Orientalist, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.