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].

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 littérature des Arabes d'Espagne, Volume I, Part I
  • Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature 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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