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Thomas Greaves

توماس غريفز

Notable figure 1612–1676 · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. ٩٠ · Second source: Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), vol. 23: Greaves, Thomas (1612–1676), by N. D. F. Pearce

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Pococke's deputy in Arabic at Oxford; oration on it (1637)

Biography

Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he became a fellow in 1636 and deputy to Edward Pococke in the Arabic lecture in 1637, when Pococke travelled east. His opening oration, De linguae Arabicae utilitate et praestantia, on the use and excellence of Arabic, was printed at Oxford in 1639. A brother of the astronomer John Greaves, he also wrote notes on the Persian versions in the London Polyglot.