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Archibald Henry Sayce

1845–1933

Orientalist and comparative philologist. BA, Oxford, 1869; fellow, Queen’s College, Oxford, 1869; lecturer and tutor, 1870. Ordained priest, 1870. Wrote for The Times and the New York Independent. Deputy professor of comparative philology, Oxford, 1876–90. Moved to Egypt in 1890; helped to found the Alexandria Museum, Cairo. Professor of Assyriology, Oxford, 1891–1915.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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