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János Uri

يانوش أوري

Notable figure 1724–1796 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 903; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 172 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Uri, János (1724-1796)

From Hungary; worked in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Busiri's Burda (Leiden, 1761)

Biography

Born in Nagykőrös, he studied at Dutch universities and lived in Leiden (1756–1770), where he published al-Busiri's Burda (1761), which sold well and was reprinted (1771). In 1770 he moved to Oxford, where he compiled the catalogue of Oriental manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, covering Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Coptic, Turkish and Persian, and lectured on Oriental languages at the university.