Carl Gottfried Woide

Carl Gottfried Woide (German: Karl Gottfried Woide) (1725–1790), also known in England as Charles Godfrey Woide, was an Orientalist.

Born to a German family in the Polish city of Leszno, he was a pastor of the Reformed church there till 1768. Woide lived in Britain from 1768 to 1790 and worked in the British Museum as a librarian.^[1] He was one of the first scholars to work on the Egyptian Sahidic texts.^[2] He examined the Codex Alexandrinus and published text of the New Testament from this codex in 1786. He owned a few pages from Uncial 070 (known as Fragmentum Woideanum).

He was elected in 1785 as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Works

• Lexicon Ægyptiaco-Latinum, 1775.
• Grammatica aegyptiaca utriusque dialecti (1778)
• Novum Testamentum Graecum e codice ms. alexandrino, London 1786.
• Appendix ad editionem Novi Testamenti graeci… in qua continentur fragmenta Novi Testamenti juxta interpretationem dialecti superioris Aegypti quae thebaica vel sahidica appellatur, Oxford 1799.

References

1. ^ Panikos Panayi, "Germans in Britain Since 1500"
2. ^ Le Jardin des Livres

External links

• Linnean Correspondence Karl Gottfried Woide to Carl Linnaeus (27 June 1775)
• Normdaten - PND: 120403099

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Name	Woide, Carl Gottfried
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