Victor Scialac
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Victor Scialac was a Maronite priest who collaborated with French Orientalist François Savary de Brèves
in the 17th century.
Victor Scialac was a former students of the Maronite College in Rome
, and together with Gabriel Sionita
(Jibrā'īl aṣ-Ṣahyūnī) was recruited by François Savary de Brèves for editorial and translation work. Victor Scialac participated in Rome to the work of Brèves' publishing house, the Typographia Savariana, through which were printed a Latin-Arab bilingual edition of a catechism of Cardinal Bellarmino
in 1613, as well as in 1614 an Syriac-Latin bilingual edition of the Book of Psalms.
Victor Scialac then accompanied Brèves to Paris, with an additional Maronite priest Johannes Hesronita (Yūḥannā al-Ḥaṣrūnī), to publish the first part of a Grammatica Arabica Maronitarum.
Brèves also attempted to establish an Oriental college in Paris, but failed for lack of funds. He succeeded however in obtaining Royal pensions for Sionita and Scialac, as interpreters and professors of Arabic and Syriac at the Collège Royal.
François Savary de Brèves
François Savary de Brèves was a French ambassador of the 16th and 17th centuries as well as an Orientalist.-Diplomacy:In 1585, François Savary de Brèves accompanied to Istanbul his relative Jacques Savary de Lancosme, who became ambassador to the Porte...
in the 17th century.
Victor Scialac was a former students of the Maronite College in Rome
Rome
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, and together with Gabriel Sionita
Gabriel Sionita
Gabriel Sionita was a learned Maronite, famous for his role in the publication of the 1645 Parisian polyglot of the Bible.-Life:...
(Jibrā'īl aṣ-Ṣahyūnī) was recruited by François Savary de Brèves for editorial and translation work. Victor Scialac participated in Rome to the work of Brèves' publishing house, the Typographia Savariana, through which were printed a Latin-Arab bilingual edition of a catechism of Cardinal Bellarmino
Robert Bellarmine
Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation...
in 1613, as well as in 1614 an Syriac-Latin bilingual edition of the Book of Psalms.
Victor Scialac then accompanied Brèves to Paris, with an additional Maronite priest Johannes Hesronita (Yūḥannā al-Ḥaṣrūnī), to publish the first part of a Grammatica Arabica Maronitarum.
Brèves also attempted to establish an Oriental college in Paris, but failed for lack of funds. He succeeded however in obtaining Royal pensions for Sionita and Scialac, as interpreters and professors of Arabic and Syriac at the Collège Royal.