CHARLES PIERRE HENRI RIEU (182o-1902)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V23,
Page 325
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:CHARLES See also:PIERRE See also:HENRI See also:RIEU (182o-1902)
, Swiss Orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Geneva in 182o
.
He studied at See also:Bonn University, where he received his See also:doctor's degree in 1843
.
He entered the See also:British Museum in 1847, and after twenty years of service, a new See also:post, that of keeper of See also:Oriental See also:manuscripts, was created for him
.
He completed in 1871 the second See also:part, dealing with Arabian See also:MSS., of the Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum orientalium, which had been begun by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Cureton, and he issued a supplementary See also:volume in 1894
.
He also See also:drew up a See also:Catalogue of the See also:Turkish Manuscripts (1888) and a Catalogue of the See also:Persian Manuscripts (4 vols., 1879-95), the latter being a storehouse of See also:information on the books and their authors
.
In 1895 he was made See also:professor of Arabic in the university of See also:Cambridge in See also:succession to See also:Robertson See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith
.
He died in See also:London on the 19th of See also:March 1902
.
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