Abraham Wheelocke

Abraham Wheelocke [Wheelock, Whelocke, Whelock, Wheloc.] (Whitchurch, Shropshire, 1593 - 1653) was an English linguist. He was the first Adams Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge, from around 1632. According to Robert Irwin ["For Lust of Knowing" (2006), p. 98.] "he regarded it as part of his academic duty to discourage students from taking up the subject". Thomas Hyde was a pupil.

He was also Reader in Anglo-Saxon. He produced the "editio princeps" of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" (1643-4) [ [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - LoveToKnow 1911 ] ] . In the same work he published an important edition of Bede's "Ecclesiastical History" in its original Latin text [David C. Douglas, "English Scholars" (1939), p. 73.] , as well as King Alfred's translation, and works of law.

He graduated MA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1618, and became Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge in 1619. ["Concise Dictionary of National Biography"]

"Quatuor evangeliorum domini nostri Jesu Christi versio Persica Syriacam & Arabicam" [ [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/55707978 Quatuor evangeliorum domini nostri Jesu Christi versio Persica Syriacam & Arabicam suavissimè redolens: ad verba & mentem Græci textus sideliter & venustè concinnata. Codicibus tribus manuscriptis ex Oriente in acaemias utrasque Anglorum perlatis, operosè invicem diligentè que collatis. Per Abrahamum Whelocum linguæ Arabicæ, & Saxonicæ, in academis Cantabrigiensi professorem, & publicum bibliothecarium. Sub auspiciis & impensis mecœnatis præcellentissimi, integerrimi virtute, historiarum optimarum notitiâ undique politissimi, D. Thomæ Adams viri patritii, nuper dni prætoris Florentissimæ civitatis Londini, munificentissimi, honoratissimi. [WorldCat.org ] ] was a trilingual version of the Four Gospels, published in the same year as the London Polyglot, to which he also contributed.

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