Cureton, William, 1808-1864
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Name (Latin)
Cureton, William, 1808-1864
Other forms of name
Kūritūn, Wilyam, 1808-1864
Cureton, Gulielmus
Cureton, William
Date of birth
1808-01
Date of death
1864-06-17
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Cataloging of manuscripts
Syriac philology
Occupation
Librarians
Philologists
Priests
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Athanasius, Saint. The Festal letters of Athanasius, 1848:title page (William Cureton, M.A., F.R.S., chaplain in ordinary to the Queen; Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum)
- Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online on November 14, 2019(Cureton, William; scholar of Syriac; baptized January 17, 1808, in Westbury, Shropshire; studied at Oxford; ordained to the Anglican priesthood in 1832; became a chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1847; was librarian at the Bodleian Library before moving to the British Museum in 1837; cataloged the Museum's Arabic and Syriac manuscripts; died June 17, 1864, in Westbury)
- Ziriklī(Kūritūn, Wilyam Kūritūn, William Cureton [in rom.]; 1223-1281/1808-1864)
- ʻUmdat ʻaqīdat ahl al-sunnah wa-al-jamāʻah, 1843:t.p. (William Cureton [in rom.])
- The Author's Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur, 1838-71.