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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.<br /><br />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<br /><br />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<br />