Names
Birth
1830
Period of Activity
He was a British Orientalist, the son of a Scottish officer in the service of the East India Company. He studied Syriac and other Semitic languages. He became a Professor of Arabic between 1855-56 at the University College London↗ and other colleges. He published an excellent catalogue of the Ethiopic manuscripts from the British Museum in 1877, consisting chiefly in the collection from Maqdalā↗ .
Death
He died at Cambridge↗ .
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Names
- William Wright
Dates
Birth: 1830
Period of activity: 1852–1889
Death: 1889
Occupation
scholar
Faith
notSpecified
Nationality
UnitedKingdom
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Witakowski, W. 2010. ‘William, Wright’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 1196a.
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Wright, W. 1877. Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum Acquired since the Year 1847 (London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1877).
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Wright, W. 1865. Contributions to the apocryphal literature of the New Testament, collected and edited from Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum, with an English translation and notes (London; Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1865).
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Wright, W. 1869. The Homilies of Aphraates, the Persian Sage. Vol 1. The Syriac Text (London: Williams and Norgate, 1869).
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