Charles Taylor (scholar)

Charles Taylor (born in London 27 May 1840; died Nuremberg 12 August 1908^[1]) was an English Christian Hebraist.

Life

He was educated at King's College London, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where graduated BA as 9th wrangler in 1862 and became a fellow of his college in 1864.^[2] He became Master of St John's in 1881. In 1874 he published an edition of Coheleth; in 1877 Sayings of the Jewish Fathers^[3], an elaborate edition of the Pirḳe Abot (2 ed., 1897); and in 1899 a valuable appendix giving a list of manuscripts.

Taylor discovered the Jewish source of the Didache in his Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, 1886, and published also an Essay on the Theology of the Didache, 1889.

Taylor took a great interest in Solomon Schechter's work in Cairo, and the genizah fragments presented to the University of Cambridge are known as the Taylor-Schechter Collection^[4]. He was joint editor with Schechter of The Wisdom of Ben Sira, 1899. He published separately Cairo Genizah Palimpsests, 1900.

He wrote also several works on geometry and participated in the creation and running of the journal Messenger of Mathematics.

References

• Who was Who: Vol. 1: 1897-1915. London: A. & C. Black

Notes

1. ^ Janus: Papers of Charles Taylor
2. ^ Taylor, Charles in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
3. ^ Online text Sayings of the Jewish Fathers.
4. ^ Taylor-Schechter: a Priceless Collection

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Academic offices
Preceded by William Henry Bateson	Master of St John's College, Cambridge 1881–1908	Succeeded by Robert Forsyth Scott
Preceded by Charles Anthony Swainson	Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1886–1888	Succeeded by Charles Edward Searle

This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.

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Date of birth	27 May 1840
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Date of death	12 August 1908
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