Archibald Henry Sayce
| Revd. Prof. Archibald Henry Sayce MA, LLD | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1845 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1933 | ||||||||||
| Residence | Queen's College, Oxford | ||||||||||
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AI Council 1877 Member
AI Council 1878 Member
AI Council 1879 Member
AI Council 1880 Member
AI Council 1888 Member
AI Council 1889 Member
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proposed 1876.11.28
Professor of Assyriology in the University of Oxford
1930 HML The antiquity of civilized man Delivered 18th Nov. at Royal Society
death noted in Report of the Council 1932-1933
Obituary: Man 33, 69
Notes From Elsewhere
The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (25 September 1845 – 4 February 1933), was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919.
Born Bath; died Bath. During his lifetime held various posts at Oxford including Professorship of Assyriology. Very large number of publications. Gave his collections of Middle and far Eastern Antiquities to the Ashmolean. Travelled widely and often lived abroad for periods of time. Honorary degrees from Oxford, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dublin and Oslo
An English Orientalist and philologist, the son of a curate. He graduated from Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1869, and later became professor of Comparative Philology there. A lifelong bachelor, he published extensively on archeology and philology, and travelled often to Greece and the Levant. It is not clear when he first met Burton, but Sayce later remembered that they planned a journey in North Africa together in the early 1880s, which did not come off. Burton often refers to Sayce in his later books, from Etruscan Bologna onwards. His personal library contains several works by Sayce, e.g. An Assyrian grammar, for comparative purposes (London, Trubner, 1872) and The Hittites: the story of a forgotten empire (London, The Religious Tract Society, 1888). Some correspondence also survives
Publications
External Publications
· Archibald Henry Sayce (1872). · An Assyrian grammar, for comparative purposes. Trübner. p. 188. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
· Archibald Henry Sayce (1877). · An elementary grammar: with full syllabary and progressive reading book, of the Assyrian language, in the cuneiform type (2 ed.). Samuel Bagster and Sons. p. 131. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
· Archibald Henry Sayce (1877). · Lectures upon the Assyrian language, and syllabary: delivered to the students of the archaic clases. Bagster. p. 157. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
· Archibald Henry Sayce (1875). · Archaic classics. An elementary grammar; with full syllabary and progressive reading book, of the Assyrian language, in the cuneiform type. Samuel Bagster. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
· Archibald Henry Sayce (1877). · An elementory grammar: with full syllabary and progressive reading book (2 ed.). S. Bagster and sons. p. 131. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
· Archibald Henry Sayce (1885). · Assyria: its princes, priests, and people (ATLA monograph preservation program). Volume 7 of By-paths of Bible knowledge. Religious Tract Society. p. 165. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
· Archibald Henry Sayce (1893). · Social life among the Assyrians and Babylonians (ATLA monograph preservation program). Volume 18 of By-paths of Bible knowledge. Religious Tract Society. p. 126. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
· Archibald Henry Sayce (1894). · A primer of Assyriology (ATLA monograph preservation program). Fleming H. Revell. p. 127. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
· Assyrian Grammar for Comparative Purposes (1872)
· Principles of Comparative Philology (1874)
· · The Chronology of the Bible connected with Contemporaneous Events in the History of Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians (1874)
· Babylonian Literature (1877)
· Introduction to the Science of Language (1879)
· Monuments of the Hittites (1881)
· The Ancient Empires of the East: Herodotos I-III. (1883)
· Ancient Empires of the East (1884)
· · Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments (1884)
· · Introduction to the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (1885)
· Assyria (1885)
· · Hibbert Lectures, 1887: Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion (1887)
· The Hittites (1889)
· · The Life and Times of Isaiah (1889)
· · Races of the Old Testament (1891)
· Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments (1894)
· · Patriarchal Palestine (1895)
· · The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus (1895)
· A History of Classical Greek Literature · Pt.1 & · Pt.2 (1895)
· · Early History of the Hebrews (1897)
· Israel and the Surrounding Nations (1898)
· · The Early History of the Hebrews 1899
· Babylonians and Assyrians (1900)
· · The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia (1902) The Gifford Lectures
· Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions (1907)
He also contributed important articles to the 9th, 10th and 11th editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
