Louis Cheikhô

Louis Cheikhô

Louis Cheikhô (born February 5, 1859 in Mardin , † 1927 in Beirut ; real name Rizq Allah Cheikhô لويس شيخو) was an orientalist , theologian and Jesuit .

education

Cheikhô followed his brother to the Jesuit school in Ghazîr in Lebanon in 1868. There he learned modern and old European and oriental languages . He then entered the Lons-le-Saunier Jesuit Seminary in France in 1874 . From 1878 to 1888 he taught Arabic literature at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut , while studying philosophy at the same university. He then studied theology for four years in Great Britain and for one year each in Vienna and Paris . From 1894 he taught again in Beirut.

Act

He is seen as an important scientist and pioneer who rediscovered the legacy of Christian Arab culture. He published unpublished Christian-Oriental literature in Arabic , which he collected while traveling in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Turkey . He also edited the magazine al-Machriq , which he founded in 1898.

See also

• CEDRAC Research and Documentation Center for Christian-Arab Heritage in Beirut
• al-Machriq the magazine of the University of Saint Joseph, Beirut

Works

• Anciens traités arabes: contenant La politique de Themistius, L'économie domestique de Probus (?), Les récits amusants de Barhebraeus et L'exclusion de la tristesse, attribué à Plato. publiés par Louis Cheikho. Beyrouth: Impr. Catholique, 1920-23. 68 p.

• Vingt traités théologiques d'auteurs arabes chrétiens, IXe-XIIIe siècle, publiés par le P. Louis Cheikho avec le concours des PP Louis Malouf et Constantin Bacha. Edition Deuxième édition augmentée. Beyrouth, Imprimerie Catholique , 1920. 148 p. Main text in Arabic, preface in French.

literature

• Camille Héchaïmé, 'Louis Cheikho et son livre' le christianisme et la littérature chrétienne avant l'Islam '", Beyrouth: Dâr el-Machreq, 1967.

Web links

• Biography in French
• Literature by and about Louis Cheikhô in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)