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SAYCE, ARCHIBALD HENRY (1846- )

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SAYCE, See also:ARCHIBALD See also:HENRY (1846- ) , See also:British Orientalist, was See also:born at Shirehampton on the 25th of See also:September 1846, son of the Rev. H. S. Sayce, See also:vicar of Caldicot. He was educated at See also:Bath, and at See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he became See also:fellow in 1869. In 1891 he was elected See also:professor of Assyriology at Oxford. He threw his whole energies into the study of biblical and other See also:Oriental subjects, and though his conclusions have in a number of cases been considerably modified (e.g. in See also:chronology and transliteration) by the See also:work of other scholars (see, e.g. BABYLONIA AND See also:ASSYRIA) it is impossible to overestimate his services to Oriental scholarship. He travelled widely in the See also:East and continued in later See also:life See also:annual trips up the See also:Nile. An interesting example of the importance of his See also:pioneer work is the fact that there has been a strong tendency to revert. to the views which he advanced on the question of the See also:Hittites in his See also:early Oxford lectures. He was a member of the Old Testament Revision See also:Company in 1874-1884; See also:deputy professor of See also:comparative See also:philology in Oxford 1876-189o; Hibbert Lecturer 1887; See also:Gifford Lecturer 1900-1902. The See also:sale was probably illegal as it was never confirmed ; and it does not appear that the See also:earl of See also:Warwick had ever had See also:title to the See also:land to convey to the company of which See also:Fenwick was See also:agent.

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history of the Warwick patent see See also:Forrest See also:Morgan, " The See also:Solution of an Old Historic See also:Mystery," in the See also:Magazine of History for See also:July, See also:August, September and See also:October 1909. Of his numerous publications the following are of See also:special importance :See also:Assyrian See also:Grammar for Comparative Purposes (1872); Principles of Comparative Philology (1874); Babylonian Literature (1877); Introduction to the See also:Science of See also:Language (1879) ; Monuments of the Hittites (1881) ; See also:Herodotus (1883); See also:Ancient Empires of the East (1884); Introduction to See also:Ezra, See also:Nehemiah and See also:Esther (1885); Assyria (1885); Hibbert Lectures on Babylonian See also:Religion (1887); The Hittites (1889); Races of the Old Testament (1891); Higher See also:Criticism and the See also:Verdict of the Monuments (1894); Patriarchal See also:Palestine (1895) ; The See also:Egypt of the See also:Hebrews and Herodotus (1895) ; Early History of the Hebrews (1897); See also:Israel and the Surrounding Nations (1898); Babylonians and Assyrians (1900); See also:Egyptian and Babylonian Religion (1903); See also:Archaeology of the See also:Cuneiform Inscr. (1907). He also contributed important articles to the 9th, loth and i i th See also:editions of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica and edited a number of Oriental See also:works.

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