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William Wright (missionnaire et auteur)

William Wright ( - ) était un missionnaire irlandais. Il passa 10 ans en mission à Damas (env. 1865-1875), un séjour qui sera à la base de nombreuses de ses publications[1]. Il est l'auteur de L'Empire des Hittites (1884), qui a présenté au grand public l'histoire de la civilisation hittite récemment découverte. Il est l'auteur de la citation « Absence of evidence is not evidence » (une absence de preuve n'est pas une preuve)[2].

William Wright
Biographie
Naissance

Rathfriland (en)
Décès
(Ă  62 ans)
Londres
Nationalité
Formation
Université Queen's de Belfast ()
Belfast Royal Academy (en)
Activités
Autres informations
Membre de
Influencé par
Charles Spurgeon, Edward Henry Palmer (en), Richard Francis Burton

Principales Publications

  • The Empire Of The Hittites, with the Decipherment of the Hittite Inscriptions by Professor A.H. Sayce
  • An Account Of Palmyra And Zenobia: With Travels And Adventures In Bashan And The Desert
  • The Book Of Jonah In Four Oriental Versions, Namely Chaldee, Syriac, Aethiopic And Arabic, With Glossaries
  • Contributions To The Apocryphal Literature Of The New Testament, Collected And Edited From Syriac Manuscripts In The British Museum
  • A Short History Of Syriac Literature
  • The Book Of Kalilah & Dimnah: Translated From Arabic Into Syriac
  • The Kamil Of El-Mubarrad, Edited For The German Oriental Society For The Manuscripts Of Leyden, St. Petersburg, Cambridge, And Berlin, Volume I, Parts I-X.
  • The Kamil Of El-Mubarrad, Edited For The German Oriental Society For The Manuscripts Of Leyden, St. Petersburg, Cambridge, And Berlin, Volume II, Containing The Indexes And Critical Notes, Parts XI And XII.
  • Lectures On The Comparative Grammar Of The Semitic Languages
  • The Travels Of Ibn Jubair, Edited From A MS. In The University Library Of Leyden
  • A Grammar Of The Arabic Language, Translated From The German By Caspari, And Edited With Numerous Additions And Corrections, Volume I
  • A Grammar Of The Arabic Language, Translated From The German By Caspari, And Edited With Numerous Additions And Corrections, Volume II
  • The Ecclesiastical History Of Eusebius In Syriac, Edited From The Manuscripts, (also by) Norman McClean, M.A., With A Collation Of The Ancient Armenian Version By Dr. Adalbert Merx
  • Catalogue Of The Ethiopic Manuscripts In The British Museum Acquired Since The Year 1847
  • A Catalogue Of The Syriac Manuscripts Preserved In The Library Of The University Of Cambridge, With An Introduction And Appendix By Stanley Arthur Cook, M.A., Volume I
  • A Catalogue Of The Syriac Manuscripts Preserved In The Library Of The University Of Cambridge, With An Introduction And Appendix By Stanley Arthur Cook, M.A., Volume II
  • Analectes sur l'histoire et la littĂ©rature des Arabes d'Espagne, Volume I, Part I
  • Analectes sur l'histoire et la littĂ©rature des Arabes d'Espagne, Volume I, Part II

Références

  1. Dictionary of National Biography.
  2. (en) William Wright, « The Empire of the Hittites », Journal of the Transactions of The Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, London, The Victoria Institute, vol. 21,‎ , p. 55-64 (lire en ligne, consulté le ). Article lu par William Wright le 3 janvier 1887.

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