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Masius, Andreas - ܐܢܕܪܐܘܣ ܡܐܣܝܘܣ

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“Humanist, early scholar of Syriac. Born in the village of Lennik, near Brussels, Masius studied Hebrew, Greek, and Latin in Louvain. Throughout his life he combined his intellectual curiosity with his diplomatic skills, traveling through Europe, often in the service of ecclesiastical or political authorities.” 1

Names

  • ܐܢܕܪܐܘܣ ܡܐܣܝܘܣ4
  • Masius, Andreas
  • ܐܰܢܕܪܰܐܘܣ ܡܰܐܣܝܘܣ4
  • اندراوس ماسيوس3
  • Masius5
  • Masius, Andreas1
  • Masius, Andreas2

Birth

1514

Death

1573

Notes

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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van RompayMasius, AndreasThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 275-276, 275-276., p: 275-276, 275-276.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 527.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 473.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 505.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Masius.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

James E. Walters et al., “Masius, Andreas — ܐܢܕܪܐܘܣ ܡܐܣܝܘܣ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/625.

Bibliography:

James E. Walters et al., “Masius, Andreas — ܐܢܕܪܐܘܣ ܡܐܣܝܘܣ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/625.

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Entry Title: Masius, Andreas — ܐܢܕܪܐܘܣ ܡܐܣܝܘܣ

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  • Editing, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson

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