Lee, SAMUEL

Lee, SAMUEL, an English orientalist, was born, 14th May 1783, at Longnor, in Shropshire, studied at Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1819 was chosen professor of Arabic, and in 1831 regius professor of Hebrew, and died rector of Barley, in Hertfordshire, 16th December 1852. His reputation rests upon a Grammar of the Hebrew Language (1827); Book of Job, translated from the Original Hebrew (3 vols. 1837); Hebrew, Chaldee, and English Lexicon (1840); a translation from the Arabic of the Travels of Ibn-Batuta (1833) and from the Syriac of the Theophania of Eusebius (1843). He also wrote Sermons on the Study of the Holy Scriptures (1830), Events and Times of the Visions of Daniel and St John (1851), and an Inquiry into Prophecy (1849). He took charge, for the British and Foreign Bible Society, of editions of the Syriac Old Testament, the Syriac New Testament or Peshito, the Malay, Persian, and Hindustani Bibles, and the Psalms in Coptic and Arabic.