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Abraham Wheelocke

أبراهام ويلوك

Notable figure 1593–1653 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1121 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Wheelocke, Abraham (1593-1653)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

First holder of the Arabic chair at Cambridge

Biography

A Cambridge graduate (1614), he became Librarian of the University, and when Sir Thomas Adams founded a chair of Arabic there he was its first holder, teaching Arabic until his death. He was in touch with William Bedwell, and his edition of the Persian Gospels with a Latin translation appeared in London in 1657.