MARGOLIOUTH, DAVID SAMUEL
- MARGOLIOUTH, DAVID SAMUEL
- MARGOLIOUTH, DAVID SAMUEL (1858–1940), classical scholar and
Orientalist. Born in London the eldest son of the convert missionary
Ezekiel Margoliouth, Margoliouth was educated at Winchester and at New
College, Oxford, where he gained two first class degrees and won the
probably unprecedented total of 11 university prizes; later he was a
fellow of New College (1881–89). In 1889 he was appointed professor of
Arabic at Oxford University (apparently without knowing Arabic, although
he quickly mastered the language), holding the position until his
retirement in 1937. In 1899 he was ordained and in 1913 he became
moderator in Oriental languages at London University, where he also
delivered the Hibbert lectures. Margoliouth was honored by many learned
societies; in 1915 he was elected as a member of the British Academy,
and from 1934 to 1937 he was president of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Margoliouth was an outstanding scholar in the fields of Islamic history
and literature and was an important editor of medieval Arabic texts.
Among his extensive writings the following are of particular Jewish
interest: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel by Jephet ibn
Ali… (edited and translated, 1889); The Place of
Ecclesiasticus in Semitic Literature (1890); The Origin of
the "Hebrew Original" of Ecclesiasticus (1899); and
Relations Between Arabs and Israelites Prior to the Rise of
Islam (Schweich lectures 1921, published 1924). He also edited
Whiston's English translation of Josephus (1906).
-ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ODNB online.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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