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ECCHELLENSIS (or ECHELLENSIS), ABRAHAM (d. 1664)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 847 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
ECCHELLENSIS (or ECHELLENSIS), ABRAHAM (d. 1664) , a learned Maronite, whose surname is derived from Eckel in Syria, where he was born towards the close of the 16th
century
 . He was educated at the Maronite college in Rome, and, after taking his
doctor
 's degree in theology and philosophy, returned for a time to his native
land
 . He then became professor of Arabic and Syriac in the college of the Propaganda at Rome. Called to Paris in 164o to assist Le Jay in the preparation of his polyglot Bible, he contributed to that
work
  the Arabic and Latin versions of the book of Ruth and the Arabic version of the third book of Maccabees. In 1646 he was appointed professor of Syriac and Arabic at the College de France. Being invited by the
Congregation
  of the Propaganda to take
part
  in the preparation of an Arabic version of the Bible, Ecchellensis went again in 1652 or 1653 to Rome. He published several Latin translations of Arabic works, of which the most important was the Chronicon Orientale of Ibnar-Rahib (Paris, 1653), a history of the patriarchs of.
Alexandria
 . He was engaged in an interesting controversy with John Selden as to the historical grounds of episcopacy, in the course of which he published his Eutychius vindicates, sive Responsio ad Seldeni Origines (Rome, 1661). Conjointly with Giovanni Borelli he wrote a Latin
translation
  of the 5th, 6th and 7th books of the Conics of Apollonius of
Perga
  (1661). He died at Rome in 1664.


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