Abraham Wheelocke

Abraham Wheelocke (born 1593 in Whitchurch , Shropshire , † September 25, 1653 ) was a British linguist and historian.

There are also name variants such as Wheloc, Wheelock.

Wheelocke received his Magister Artium degree from Trinity College , Cambridge in 1618 and became a fellow of Clare College in 1619 . In the same year he was ordained and held various pastoral positions before becoming Cambridge University Librarian in 1629. In 1635 he also became a professor of the Arabic language. He also taught Anglo-Saxon studies.

He contributed to the London Polyglot (a multilingual edition of Biblical texts, 1657) by Brian Walton and published a Latin-Persian edition of the Gospels (Quatuor evangeliorum domini nostri Jesu Christi versio Persica Syriacam & Arabicam suavissimè redolens 1657).

From him comes the Editio princeps of the Anglo-Saxon translation of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum by Beda Venerabilis (together with the original Latin text, with Anglo-Saxon legal texts and homilies by Ælfric Grammaticus , translated into Latin by Wheelocke) and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle .

literature

• Wheelock, Abraham . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 4 : Hall – Zuingius . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1927, pp. 381 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).