Wright, William Sebastian P. Brock Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University The International Balzan Prize Foundation George A. Kiraz Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts Lucas Van Rompay Ute Possekel Daniel L. Schwartz David A. Michelson Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, and TEI editing by Ute S. Posssekel Data cleaning and initial valid TEI encoding by David Michelson XSLT transformations by Winona Salesky Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, TEI schema, and TEI encoding and editing by Daniel L. Schwartz Conversion to semantic XML by George A. Kiraz Electronic Edition Version 1.5 Published by Gorgias Press LLC, 954 River Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA www.gorgiaspress.com for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute Published with the collaboration of Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal Published and hosted with the collaboration of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University

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Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition George A. Kiraz Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts Lucas Van Rompay Ute Possekel Daniel L. Schwartz David A. Michelson Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, and TEI editing by Ute S. Posssekel Data cleaning and initial valid TEI encoding by David Michelson XSLT transformations by Winona Salesky Data cleaning, editorial proofreading, TEI schema, and TEI encoding and editing by Daniel L. Schwartz Conversion to semantic XML by George A. Kiraz Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage Sebastian P. Brock Aaron M. Butts George A. Kiraz Lucas Van Rompay Piscataway, N.J. Gorgias Press for Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute 2011 Copyright ©2011 by Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute ISBN: 978-1-59333-714-8
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Wright, William https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Wright-William http://syriaca.org/bibl/584 575 William Wright http://syriaca.org/person/807 person Notable Syriac and Arabic scholar. (1830–1889)

Syriac and Arabic scholar. Born in north India, he was educated at St. Andrews University (Scotland), and subsequently studied at Halle with Emil Rödiger, and at Leiden with R. Dozy. He was appointed Professor of Arabic at University College, London in 1885, moving the next year to a similar chair at Trinity College, Dublin, where he remained till 1861, when he was appointed to a post in the British Museum, in order to catalogue the large collection of Syriac mss. acquired from Dayr al-Suryān . Finally, in 1870, he was appointed as Sir Thomas Adam’s Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. He was an enormously learned and productive scholar; in the Syriac field, besides his monumental Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1838 (3 vols.; 1870–2), followed (after his death) by A Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge (2 vols.; 1901), he edited a large number of important Syriac texts, including Contributions to the Apocryphal Literature of the New Testament (1865), Aphrahaṭ ’s ‘Demonstrations’ (1869), the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (1871), the Chronicle of Yeshuʿ the Stylite (1882), Kalila and Dimna (1884), and Eusebius ’s Ecclesiastical History (1898; with N. McLean). He also published a number of important shorter texts in the Journal of Sacred Literature. His A Short History of Syriac Literature, which appeared posthumously (1894; repr. 2001), remains useful for lesser known authors, though it is now outdated for many major ones.

Sources (Unsigned), in <abbr>JRAS</abbr> 1889, 708–13. G. J.  Roper, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 60 (2004), 506–7.
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