Bidāry, Pawlos
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Bidāry, Pawlos

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Bidary-Pawlos http://syriaca.org/bibl/117 108 Pawlos Bidāry http://syriaca.org/person/395 [person] [Priest and author.]

(1887/1890–1974) [Chald.]

He was born in Bidār near Zakho, and joined the Seminary of St. John in Mosul in 1900. He was ordained a priest in 1912. He lived in Syria most of his life, but returned to Iraq a few years before 1974.

He wrote a grammar entitled Mhadyānā d-eskulāye ‘Guide for students’ (Mosul, 1923). He composed many poems, only a few of which were published (India, 1957). A few of his articles, written in Syriac, were published by the Iraqi Academy under the title Selected articles & poems by Rev. Paulus Bidary (Baghdad, 1977).

Sources

Abūna, Adab, 511–2.
Macuch, Geschichte, 414–5.

George A. Kiraz