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CARLYLE, JOSEPH DACRE (1759-18o4)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 349 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAR-CAU
CARLYLE, JOSEPH DACRE (1759-18o4) , British orientalist, was born in 1759 at
Carlisle
 , where his father was a physician. He went in 1775 to
Cambridge
 , was elected a fellow of Queens' College in 1779, taking the degree of B.D. in 1793. With the assistance of a native of Bagdad known in England as
David
  Zamio, then
resident
  at
Cambridge
 , he attained
great
  proficiency in Arabic literature; and after succeeding Dr Paley in the chancellorship of
Carlisle
 , he was appointed, in 1795, professor of Arabic in Cambridge University. His translation from the Arabic of Yusuf ibn Taghri Birdi, the Rerum Egypticarum Annales, appeared in 1792, and in 1796 a volume of Specimens of Arabic Poetry, from the earliest times to the fall of the Caliphate, with some account of the authors. Carlyle was appointed chap-lain by Lord
Elgin
  to the embassy at Constantinople in 1799, and prosecuted his researches in Eastern literature in a tour through Asia
Minor
 , Palestine,
Greece
  and Italy, collecting in his travels several valuable Greek and Syriac MSS. for a projected
critical
  edition of the New Testament, collated with the Syriac and other versionsa
work
 , however,which he did not live to complete. On his return to England in 1801 he was presented by the bishop of Carlisle to the living of Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he died on the 12th of April 1804. After his death there appeared a volume of poems descriptive of the scenes of his travels, with prefaces extracted from his journal. Among other works which he left unfinished was an edition of the Bible in Arabic, completed by H. Ford and published in 1811:


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