Regius Professor of Hebrew (Oxford)

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The Regius Professor of Hebrew is a Regius Professorship for Hebrew Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oxford , founded in 1540 by King Henry VIII . In addition to this professorship, there is another professorship for these subjects at the University of Cambridge , the Regius Professor of Hebrew , which was also founded by Henry VIII .

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Thomas Harding MA 1546 or 1547 Harding was chosen for the professorship because it was believed that he could speak the languages (…  being esteemed a knowing person in the tounges ). The initially enthusiastic supporter of the Anglican Church was later convinced by Catholicism and retained this belief even after Elizabeth I ascended the throne . He emigrated to Leuven , Belgium, where he spent the rest of his life.
Richard Bruerne BD 1548 Bruerne was involved in the church politics of his time and could not always give his lectures himself. In his place taught from 1556 to 1558, among others Pedro de Soto . But there is also the possibility that he was not allowed to give the lectures due to a misconduct, as he was accused of hideous moral depravity , for which he was removed from his professorship in 1559.
Thomas Neale 1559 1569 During the reign of Edward IV , Neale lived in Paris and did not return to Oxford until Mary I assumed rule. One year after Elizabeth I ascended the throne, Neale was appointed professor, although he did not seem to have renounced his Catholic faith. Nevertheless, he kept the office until 1569.
Thomas Kingsmill MA, BD, 1570 Kingsmill had already taught natural philosophy at the university , and from 1565 also Hebrew.
John Harding 1591
William Thorne MA, BD, DD June 27, 1598 1604 Thorne was an excellent Hebraist and Orientalist, whose reputation was known far beyond England. Johannes van den Driesche dedicated his 'Opuscula quae ad Grammaticam spectant' (1609) to Thorne.
John Harding 1604 Second term;
Richard Kilbye MA, DD 1610 Nov 7, 1620 Born from a lower class, Kilbye rose high in the church hierarchy. He was one of the translators of the King James Bible .
Edward Meetkerke MA, BD, DD Nov 8, 1620 1626 The only son of the Brussels envoy in England. left the professorship when he was given the prolific parish in Easton, Hampshire. was allocated.
John Morris 1626 March 28, 1647 poss. also in 1648
Edward Pococke MA, BD, STD 1648 Pococke (also Pocock) had heard lectures from Matthias Pasor (the son of Georg Pasor ) and later William Bedwell , the father of Arabic studies in England. He was awarded a professorship at the University of Heidelberg. After the death of John Morris he was given the Regius Professorship. Since he was politically controversial, this was withdrawn from him again, but he continued to give his lectures under the protection of the academic community until in 1660 the office and the associated parishes were officially transferred to him again by Charles II with a Letters patent .
Roger Altham 1691
Thomas Hyde MA, DD 1697 Hyde succeeded Pocockes as Laudian Professor of Arabic in 1691. In 1697 he was offered the Regius Professorship, which he held until his death on February 18, 1702 (1703).
Roger Altham 1702 1715 Second term.
Robert Clavering MA, DD May 20, 1715 1747 Clavering was appointed Bishop of Llandaff in 1735 and was given permission to hold the professorship alongside his episcopate. He held the professorship until his death on July 21, 1747.
Thomas Hunt MA, BD, DD 1747 From 1738 Hunt taught as Laudean Professor of Arabic at Oxford University and from 1747 until his death in 1774 as Regius Professor.
Richard Brown 1774
George Jubb MA, DD March 25, 1780 1787 Jubb's opening lecture was titled Linguæ Hebraicæ studium iuventuti academiæ commendatum .
Benjamin Blayney MA, BD, DD 1787 Blayney's writings were less characterized by literary ability than by a comprehensive education in Hebraistic for his time. He responded to the controversies this triggered with exceptional fairness and courtesy.
Joseph White MA, BD, DD 1802 1814 The son of a journeyman weaver owed his education to patrons who noticed his exceptional achievements at school. At the request of such a benefactor, White focused on the Middle Eastern languages. His translations of parts of the Old and New Testaments resulted in his appointment as Regius Professorship and Pastor of Christ Church Cathedral. White's writings included the work of others wherever he could. Even so, his achievements as a lingustite are on par with the best linguists of his time.
Richard Laurence MA, BCL, DCL 1814 1822 Laurence's brother French had been appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law in 1769 . After the death of his wife in 1822, Laurence accepted the appointment as Archbishop of Cashel and left the professorship. Scientifically, he left behind a number of translations of apocrypha from Ethiopian .
Alexander Nicoll MA, DCL 1822 1828 Nicoll cataloged the Oriental writings in the Bodleian Library . This achievement earned him such a good reputation that it was said that he could get as far as the Great Wall of China without the help of an interpreter .
Edward Bouverie Pusey MA 1828 1882 Under the influence of the Regius Professor of Divinity , Charles Lloyd , Pusey spent two years at German universities, for example under Eichhorn and Schleiermacher , where he dealt with the controversial, because rationalistic, biblical criticisms of the time. There he befriended August Tholuck . When he realized the importance, Pusey began to study ancient oriental languages ​​himself, first under Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten at the University of Greifswald , later under Georg Wilhelm Freytag at the University of Bonn . In 1827 Pusey returned to England and shortly afterwards published his first book An Historical Inquiry into the Probable Causes of the Rationalist Character lately predominant in the Theology of Germany .

In November 1828 Pusey was appointed Regius Professor as Nicoll's successor. From Nicoll he inherited the labor-intensive task of completing the catalogs of the oriental writings of the Bodleian Library. He invested almost six years in this task, although he was already busy with the lectures on linguistics and theology which he believed were necessary and which he considered necessary.

Samuel Rolles Driver CBE, MC, MA, DD 1883 1914
George Albert Cooke DD 1914 1936 Cooke had an ecclesiastical and academic career in Oxford before taking up the professorship in 1914.
Godfrey Rolles Driver (acting) 1834 Godfrey was the son of Samuel Rolles Driver. Godfrey Rolls Driver was the most recognized British orientalist of his time. He would have made an excellent Regius Professor if this office had not also included the parish of Christ Church , which made Rolles Driver ineligible for lack of theological qualifications.
Herbert Danby DD 1936 Danby returned to Oxford in 1936 after seventeen years in Jerusalem to take on the Regius Professorship. At Oxford he continued to make contributions to modern Hebrew. Danby had gained a deep understanding of the people living in the then British Mandate of Palestine and used his influence in the Anglican Church for them.
Cuthbert Aikman Simpson DD 1954 Prior to his appointment, Simpson had taught as Professor of Old Testament Literature and Interpretation at the General Theological Seminary at New York.
Godfrey Rolles Driver CBE, MC 1959 second term as acting professor
William Duff McHardy BD, D. Phil. 1960 1978
James Barr MA, BD 1978 1989
Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson Esq., MA, Ph.D, DD, FBA, OBE 1992 2014
Jan Thijs Alfons Joosten Esq., TM, Ph.D. 2014 Joosten, who came from Belgium, had last held a professorship for theology at the University of Strasbourg after stays in Princeton (USA), Jerusalem, and Rwanda .

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b c William Hunt:  Bruerne, Richard . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 7:  Brown - Burthogge. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1886 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Sarah Knight: Thomas Neale 'Hebraismi Typus' (1566) . (PDF) University of Warwick; accessed on October 30, 2016.
  4. ^ A b Gordon Goodwin:  Kingsmill, Thomas . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 31:  Kennett-Lambart. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1892 (English).
  5. ^ A b c Edward Irving Carlyle:  Thorne, William (1568? –1630) . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 56:  Teach - Tollet. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1898 (English).
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  10. ^ A b Gordon Goodwin:  Meetkerke, Edward . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 37:  Masquerier - Millyng. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1894 (English).
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  16. ^ A b c Gordon Goodwin:  Clavering, Robert . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 11:  Clater - Condell. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1887 (English).
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  22. ^ A b c Henry Bradley:  Blayney, Benjamin . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 5:  Bicheno - Bottisham. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1886 (English).
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  25. ^ A b c Thomas Wilson Bayne:  Nicoll, Alexander . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 41:  Nichols - O'Dugan. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1895 (English).
  26. ^ A b Communication on the appointment of Edward Bouverie Pusey as Regius Professor of Hebrew. In: London Gazette , November 19, 1828.
  27. ↑ a b c d e f g h John Octavius ​​Johnston:  Pusey, Edward Bouverie . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 47:  Puckle - Reidfurd. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1896 (English).
  28. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of Samuel Rolles Driver as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University. In: London Gazette , December 29, 1882.
  29. ^ A b Communication on the appointment of George Albert Cooke as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University. In: London Gazette , March 31, 1914.
  30. ^ A b Catalog entry for the Reverend George Albert Cooke Journals of the University of Bristol Library Special Collections; accessed on October 31, 2016.
  31. ↑ a b Obituary for Sir Godfrey Driver on cambridge.org; accessed on October 31, 2016.
  32. ^ C. Edmund Bosworth: A Century of British Orientalists (1902-2001) . Oxford University Press / British Academy, 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-726243-6 , pp. 103 ff.
  33. ^ A b c Notice of the appointment of Reverend Cuthbert Aikman Simpson as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University. In: London Gazette , April 9, 1954.
  34. ^ A b c d Shalom Goldman: Zeal for Zion: Christians, Jews, & the Idea of ​​the Promised Land . University of North Carolina Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8078-3344-5 , pp. 137 ff.
  35. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of William Duff McHardy as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University. In: London Gazette , October 14, 1960.
  36. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of James Barr as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University. In: London Gazette , October 5, 1978.
  37. ↑ a b Communication on the appointment of Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University. In: London Gazette , April 6, 1992.
  38. ^ A b Announcement on the appointment of Jan Thijs Alfons Joosten as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University. In: London Gazette , October 3, 2014.
  39. ↑ Hugh GM Williamson ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Oxford University Faculty of Oriental Studies website; accessed on October 28, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orinst.ox.ac.uk
  40. ↑ meritus Professor Hugh GM Williamson on the site of Christ Church College ; accessed on October 28, 2016.
  41. ^ Introduction of Professor Hugh Williamson on the British Academy website (britac.ac.uk); accessed on October 28, 2016.
  42. ^ Profile of Jan Joosten on the website of the Faculté de Théologie Protestante of the Université de Strasbourg; accessed on October 31, 2016.