Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic
Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic is a title used at Cambridge University for the holder of a professorship of Arabic; Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1668), Lord Mayor of London in 1645, gave to Cambridge University the money needed to create the first Professorship of Arabic.[1]
The professorship was partly created to propagate the Christian faith "to them who now sit in darkness".[2]
Sir Thomas Adams's Professors[]
- Abraham Wheelocke (1632)
- Edmund Castell (1666)
- (1685)
- (1702–1710)[3]
- Simon Ockley (1711)
- Leonard Chappelow (1720)
- Samuel Hallifax (1768)
- William Craven (1770)
- Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1795)
- (1804)[4]
- Samuel Lee (1819)[5]
- Thomas Jarrett (1831)
- (1854)
- William Wright (1870)
- William Robertson Smith (1889)
- Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (1894)
- Edward Granville Browne (1902)[6]
- Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (1926)
- Charles Ambrose Storey (1933)
- Arthur John Arberry (1947–1969)
- Robert Bertram Serjeant (1970–1982)
- (1985)
- Tarif Khalidi (1996–2002)
- (2012– )[7]
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ Chalmers, Alexander. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. new ed. rev. and enl. London: Nichols [et al.], 1812-1817. 32 vols.
- ^ Brooke, Christopher; Highfield, Roger; Swaan, Wim, photographs by (1988). Oxford and Cambridge. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. p. 180. ISBN 0-521-30139-4.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ "Wright, Charles (WRT652C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Palmer, John (PLMR787J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Haigh, John D. "Lee, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16309. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "University intelligence - Cambridge". The Times (36755). London. 30 April 1902. p. 11.
- ^ "Elections". Cambridge University Reporter (6266). 16 May 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
Categories:
- Professorships at the University of Cambridge
- School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge
- 1643 establishments in England
- Professorships in languages
- British Arabists