Abraham Ecchellensis

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Abraham Ecchellensis ( February 18, 1605 , Haquil ; † June 15, 1664 , Rome ), also Abraham Ekchellensis (from Arabic إبراهيم الحاقلاني, DMG Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Dāwūd Ḥāqilānī ) was a Maronite theologian and linguist .

Life

Abraham Ecchellensis was born in the village of Haquil (also Hekel or Ecchel) in the Lebanon Mountains , Syria , from which his surname is derived. He received his training at the Maronite College in Rome, where he received his doctorate in theology and philosophy. He was ordained a deacon and taught Arabic and Syriac in Pisa . In the same capacity he later worked at the College of Propaganda in Rome, to which he was appointed by Urban VIII . Ecchellensis was one of the first promoters of Syrian studies in Europe; his Syrian grammar , published in 1628 , was long held in high esteem. In 1640 he went to Paris to work on Gay-Michel Le Jay's Paris Polyglot . Ecchellensis translated the book of Ruth into Latin and Arabic and the third book of the Maccabees into Arabic. However, he broke off his work as early as 1642 due to differences of opinion. Ecchellensis resumed teaching in Rome, but in 1645 went to the Paris Sorbonne as a professor of Syriac and Arabic . In 1653 he returned to Rome, where he lived until his death in 1664. There he worked on a translation of the Bible into Arabic for the College of Propaganda . He also published several translations of Arabic scripts into Latin, the most important of which is the Chronicon orientale of Ibn ar-Râhib , a history of Alexandrian patriarchs.

Ecchellensis engaged in an interesting controversy with John Selden about the historical basis of the episcopal church regiment, which led him to publish his pamphlet for the episcopate and the pope against the Presbyterianism of John Selden (1661). Together with Giovanni Alfonso Borelli , he published an annotated Latin translation of the 5th, 6th and 7th books of the conic sections by the geometrician Apollonios von Perge (1661).

Works (selection)

  • 1628 - Linguae Syriacae, sive Chaldaicae perbrevis institutio, ad eiusdem nationis studiosos adolescentes (Rome);
  • 1641 - Synopsis propositorum sapientiae arabum philosophorum (Paris, dedicated to Cardinal Richelieu );
  • 1651 - Chronicon orientale (Paris) by Ibn ar-Râhib (translation from Arabic)
  • 1653 - Tractatus continens catalogum librorum Caldaeorum tam Ecclesiasticorum quam profanorum, latinitate donatus, et notis illustratus (Rome, dedicated to Cardinal Antonio Barberini );
  • 1655 - Concordia nationum christianarum orientalium ... in fidei catholicae dogmate (Moguntiae, together with Leo Allatius );
  • 1661 - Eutychius Patriarcha Alexandrinus vindicatus et suis restitutus orientalibus (Rome)
  • 1661 - Apollonii Pergaei conicorum lib. V, VI, VII paraphraste Abalphato Asphahanensi (translation from Arabic to Latin).

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SURNAME Ecchellensis, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ekchellensis, Abraham; al-Haqilani, Ibrahim; Ecchelensis, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maronite theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Haquil , Syria
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1664
Place of death Rome , Italy