Edmund Castle
Edmund Castell (also Castle or Latinized Castellus ; * 1606 in Hatley , Cambridgeshire , † 1685 in Cambridge ) was an English orientalist .
Castell wrote the lexicon heptaglotton (in one volume in 1686 or in two volumes, published posthumously in 1689 ), which, based on the Hebrew tribes , encompasses the entire vocabulary of Hebrew , Chaldean , Syriac , Samarian , Ethiopian and Arabic ( i.e. the Semitic languages known at the time ) . As an appendix he included a detailed dictionary . The work, especially the Syrian part, was in use until the beginning of the 20th century .
Works
- Lexicon Heptaglotton Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Aethiopicum, Arabicum, et Persicum (1669), contains the first printed dictionary of the Persian language based on the Dictionarium Persico-Latinum by Jacobus Golius , who died in Leiden (NL) in 1667 and left this work.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul de Lagarde: Persian Studies . 1884. (Reprint: Zeller, Osnabrück 1970), p. 7
Web links
- Literature by and about Edmund Castle in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castle, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Castell, Edmund; Castellus, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1606 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hatley , Cambridgeshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1685 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , England |