Charles Pierre Henri Rieu

Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (June 8, 1820–March 19, 1902), Swiss Orientalist, was born at Geneva.

He studied at Bonn University, where he received his doctors degree in 1843. He entered the British Museum in 1847, and after twenty years of service, a new post, that of Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts, was created for him.

He completed in 1871 the second part, dealing with Arabic manuscripts, of the Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalum, which had been begun by William Cureton, and he issued a supplementary volume in 1894.

He also drew up a Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts (1888) and a Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts (4 vols, 1879-95)^[1], the latter being a storehouse of information on the books and their authors. In 1895 he was made professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, with the full title 'Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic', in succession to Robertson Smith.^[2] He died in London on the 19th of March 1902. He was the father of E. V. Rieu.

References

1. ^ Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British museum (1879)
2. ^ Rieu, Charle Pierre Henri in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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