William Cureton
William Cureton , born in 1808 with Westbury, in the Shropshire, and dead the June 17th 1864, was an English orientalist.
Raise in Oxford, it enters the orders then, and studies the Eastern languages, mainly Arabic. It is named under-secretary with the Bodleian Library in 1834. In 1837, it is charged to draw up the catalog of the books and handwritten Arab of the British Museum, and the first volume in 1846 publishes some; however, its work is stopped when it is named canon of the Abbaye of Westminster and vice-chancellor of the parish St Margaret.
From its work on the funds of British Museum, it drew a syriaque translation of the Lettres from Ignace saint to Polycarpe saint, Éphésiens and the Romans , published in 1845, as well as a fragment of the Gospels into syriaque, published in Oxford in 1850.
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