SAYCE, ARCHIBALD HENRY (1846- )

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SAYCE, ARCHIBALD HENRY (1846- ) , British Orientalist, was born at Shirehampton on the 25th of September 1846, son of the Rev. H. S. Sayce,

vicar

VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

of Caldicot. He was educated at Bath, and at Queen's College, Oxford, of which he became fellow in 1869. In 1891 he was elected professor of Assyriology at Oxford. He threw his whole energies into the study of biblical and other Oriental subjects, and though his conclusions have in a number of cases been considerably modified (e.g. in chronology and transliteration) by the

work

WORK

of other scholars (see, e.g. BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA) it is impossible to overestimate his services to Oriental scholarship. He travelled widely in the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

and continued in later life annual trips up the Nile. An interesting example of the importance of his

pioneer

PIONEER

work

WORK

is the fact that there has been a strong tendency to revert. to the views which he advanced on the question of the Hittites in his early Oxford lectures. He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Company in 1874-1884; deputy professor of comparative philology in Oxford 1876-189o; Hibbert Lecturer 1887;

Gifford

Lecturer 1900-1902.
The sale was probably illegal as it was never confirmed ; and it does not appear that the

earl

EARL

of Warwick had ever had title to the land to convey to the company of which Fenwick was agent. For a conjectural explanation of the history of the Warwick patent see Forrest

Morgan

, " The Solution of an Old Historic Mystery," in the Magazine of History for July, August, September and October 1909.
Of his numerous publications the following are of

special

SPECIAL

importance :Assyrian Grammar for Comparative Purposes (1872); Principles of Comparative Philology (1874); Babylonian Literature (1877); Introduction to the Science of Language (1879) ; Monuments of the Hittites (1881) ; Herodotus (1883); Ancient Empires of the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

(1884); Introduction to Ezra,

Nehemiah

NEHEMIAH (Heb. for " Yah[weh] comforts ")

and Esther (1885); Assyria (1885); Hibbert Lectures on Babylonian Religion (1887); The Hittites (1889); Races of the Old Testament (1891); Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments (1894); Patriarchal Palestine (1895) ; The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus (1895) ; Early History of the Hebrews (1897);

Israel

ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

and the Surrounding Nations (1898); Babylonians and Assyrians (1900); Egyptian and Babylonian Religion (1903); Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscr. (1907). He also contributed important articles to the 9th, loth and i i th editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and edited a number of Oriental works.

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