Lord Almoner's Professorship of Arabic
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The Lord Almoner's Professorship of Arabic was one of the senior professorships at the University of Cambridge
. Founded in 1724, the holder was appointed by the Lord Almoner and paid from the Almonry funds.
The chair was discontinued on the death of the incumbent in 1933.
University of Cambridge
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. Founded in 1724, the holder was appointed by the Lord Almoner and paid from the Almonry funds.
The chair was discontinued on the death of the incumbent in 1933.
Lord Almoner's Professors
- David WilkinsDavid Wilkins (orientalist)David Wilkins , originally named Wilke or Wilkius, was a Prussian orientalist, born in Memel, who settled in England. His 1716 publication of the Coptic New Testament was the editio princeps.-Life:...
(1724) - Leonard ChappelowLeonard ChappelowLeonard Chappelow was an English clergyman and orientalist. Hwe was Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge, from 1720, for life, and also Lord Almoner's Professorship of Arabic.-Life:...
(1729) - Samuel HallifaxSamuel HallifaxSamuel Hallifax or Halifax was an English churchman and academic, holder of several chairs at Cambridge and bishop of two sees.-Life:...
(1768) - William Craven (1770)
- George Cecil RenouardGeorge Cecil RenouardGeorge Cecil Renouard was an English classical and oriental scholar.-Biography:Renouard, born at Stamford, Lincolnshire, on 7 September 1780, was the youngest son of Peter Renouard George Cecil Renouard (7 September 1780–15 February 1867) was an English classical and oriental...
(1815) - Thomas Musgrave (1821)
- Thomas Robinson (1837)
- Theodore Preston (1855)
- Edward Henry PalmerEdward Henry PalmerEdward Henry Palmer was an English orientalist.Palmer was born in Cambridge as the son of a private schoolmaster. He was educated at The Perse School, and as a schoolboy showed the characteristic bent of his mind by picking up the Romany tongue and a great familiarity with the life of the Gypsies...
(1871) - William Robertson SmithWilliam Robertson SmithWilliam Robertson Smith was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica...
(1883) - Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer (1886)
- Robert Lubbock BenslyRobert Lubbock BenslyRobert Lubbock Bensly was an English Orientalist.He was educated at King's College London, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, studied in Germany, and was appointed reader in Hebrew at Gonville and Caius College 1863...
(1887) - Anthony Ashley Bevan (1893) - contributor to the Encyclopaedia BiblicaEncyclopaedia BiblicaEncyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible , edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia of the Bible. In Theology/Biblical studies, it is often...