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See also:CASTELL, See also:EDMUND (16o6-1685) , See also:English orientalist, was See also:born in 16o6 at Tadlow, in See also:Cambridgeshire. At the See also:age of fifteen he entered See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge, but afterwards changed his See also:residence to St See also:John's, on See also:account of the valuable library there. His See also:great See also:work was the compiling of his See also:Lexicon Heptaglotton Hebr aicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, A ethiopicum, Arabicum, et Persicum (1669). Over this See also:book he spent eighteen years, working (if we may accept his own statement) from sixteen to eighteen See also:hours a See also:day; he employed fourteen assistants, and by an See also:expenditure of £12,000 brought himself to poverty, for his lexicon, though full of the most unusual learning, did not find purchasers. He was actually in See also:prison in 1667 because he was unable to See also:discharge his See also:brother's debts, for which he had made himself liable. A See also:volume of poems dedicated to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king brought him preferment. He was made See also:prebendary of See also:Canterbury and See also:professor of Arabic at Cambridge. Before undertaking the Lexicon Heptaglotton, Castell had helped Dr See also:Brian See also:Walton in the preparation of his See also:Polyglott See also:Bible. His See also:MSS. he bequeathed to the university of Cambridge. He died in 1685 at Higham Gobion, See also:Bedfordshire, where he was See also:rector.
The See also:Syriac See also:section of the Lexicon was issued separately at See also:Gottingen in 1788 by J. D. See also:Michaelis, who offers a See also:tribute to Castell's learning and See also:industry. See also:Trier published the See also:Hebrew section in 1790-1792.
End of Article: CASTELL, EDMUND (16o6-1685)
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