Robert Payne Smith

Robert Payne Smith (born November 7, 1818 in Chipping Campden , † March 31, 1895 in Canterbury Cathedral ) was professor of theology at the University of Oxford in the position of Regius Professor of Divinity and at the same time Canon at Christ Church . He was married to Catherine Langley.

Payne Smith was the only son and second of four children born from the marriage of Robert and Esther Argles Payne. He learned Hebrew from his older sister Esther. In 1837 he received a scholarship at Pembroke College in Oxford to begin studying classical music, which he graduated with honors in 1841. In 1840 he received the Boden scholarship for Sanskrit and in 1843 the Pusey and Ellerton scholarship for Hebrew. In the same year he became the brother of Pembroke, where he was first ordained a deacon and later a priest.

Payne Smith was Professor of Theology at Oxford University from 1865 to 1871, then Dean of Canterbury from 1871 to 1895.

His main work is the Thesaurus Syriacus , a Syriac-Latin dictionary in which he considered all of the Syrian literature known up to that point. In 1903 his daughter Jessie Payne Margoliouth published an abridged Syriac-English dictionary based on the Thesaurus Syriacus .

literature

Simpson, RS: Smith, Robert Payne (1818–1895) , in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press 2004.

Individual evidence

^ Henry Frowde (1888) Historical Register of the University of Oxford; Supplement to the University Calendar 1888 ; Oxford University Press.
↑ Notice on the appointment of Robert Payne Smith as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford in the London Gazette of September 22, 1865.
^ Notice in the London Gazette on October 10, 1871, about the appointment of James Bowling Mozley as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.

Web links

Commons : A compendious Syriac Dictionary - Jessie Payne Margoliouth (Ed.)

Payne Smith's short version of the Syrian dictionary online (English)
Simpson, RS 'Payne Smith, Robert (1818–1895)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press , 2004.

personal data
SURNAME	Payne Smith, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English theologian and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chipping Campden
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1895
Place of death	Canterbury Cathedral

[HisRegFrowde-1] Henry Frowde (1888) Historical Register of the University of Oxford; Supplement to the University Calendar 1888 ; Oxford University Press.

[LGaz7574-1141-2] Notice on the appointment of Robert Payne Smith as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford in the London Gazette of September 22, 1865.

[LGaz23783-4199-3] Notice in the London Gazette on October 10, 1871, about the appointment of James Bowling Mozley as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford.