Jessie Payne Margoliouth

Jessie Margoliouth née Payne Smith (1856–1933) was a Syriac scholar.

A daughter of Robert Payne Smith, she abridged and translated her father's Thesaurus Syriacus into English in 1903 as A compendious Syriac Dictionary. She also published a Supplement to the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith in 1927.

External links[]

• J. Payne Smith, ed., A compendious Syriac Dictionary, 1903 Wikicommons
• D. G. K. Taylor, ‘Margoliouth , Jessie Payne (1856–1933)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Feb 2008

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