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JOSEPH DACRE CARLYLE (1759-18o4)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 349 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH DACRE See also:CARLYLE (1759-18o4)  , See also:British orientalist, was See also:born in 1759 at See also:Carlisle, where his See also:father was a physician . He went in 1775 to See also:Cambridge, was elected a See also:fellow of Queens' See also:College in 1779, taking the degree of B.D. in 1793 . With the assistance of a native of See also:Bagdad known in See also:England as See also:David Zamio, then See also:resident at Cambridge, he attained See also:great proficiency in Arabic literature; and after succeeding Dr See also:Paley in the chancellorship of Carlisle, he was appointed, in 1795, See also:professor of Arabic in Cambridge University . His See also:translation from the Arabic of Yusuf See also:ibn Taghri Birdi, the Rerum Egypticarum Annales, appeared in 1792, and in 1796 a See also:volume of Specimens of Arabic See also:Poetry, from the earliest times to the fall of the See also:Caliphate, with some See also:account of the authors . See also:Carlyle was appointed See also:chap-lain by See also:Lord See also:Elgin to the See also:embassy at See also:Constantinople in 1799, and prosecuted his researches in Eastern literature in a tour through See also:Asia See also:Minor, See also:Palestine, See also:Greece and See also:Italy, See also:collecting in his travels several valuable See also:Greek and See also:Syriac See also:MSS. for a projected See also:critical edition of the New Testament, collated with the Syriac and other versions—a See also:work, however,which he did not live to See also:complete . On his return to England in 1801 he was presented by the See also:bishop of Carlisle to the living of See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne, where he died on the 12th of See also:April 1804 . After his See also:death there appeared a volume of poems descriptive of the scenes of his travels, with prefaces extracted from his See also:journal . Among other See also:works which he See also:left unfinished was an edition of the See also:Bible in Arabic, completed by H .

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