PALMER, EDWARD HENRY°

PALMER, EDWARD HENRY°
PALMER, EDWARD HENRY° (1840–1882), English Orientalist. Born in Cambridge and educated at Cambridge University, he took part in the 1867 Sinai Survey Expedition of the Palestine Exploration Fund. In 1869/70 he traveled with Tyrwhitt Drake in the desert of Tih, Edom, Moab, and the Lebanon, and this resulted in a two-volume work, Desert of the Exodus (1871), in which he described the discovery of, inter alia, the site of Kurnub in the Negev. He was appointed professor of Arabic in 1871. In 1881 he left Cambridge and edited the Arabic and English Name Lists of the Survey of Western Palestine (1881) in which his excellent knowledge of Arabic and other Oriental languages served him well. In 1882 he was dispatched on a secret mission to Sinai in connection with British operations in Egypt against Arabi Pasha; he was assassinated there by Bedouin. His works include Jerusalem: the City of Herod and Saladin, written jointly with W. Besant (1888). -ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: ODNB online. (Michael Avi-Yonah)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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  • PALMER, EDWARD HENRY —    Oriental scholar, born at Cambridge; had an aptitude for languages, and was especially proficient in those of the East; by his knowledge of Arabic contributed to the success of exploring expeditions to S. Palestine and Sinai; was appointed… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Edward Henry Palmer — (* 7. August 1840 in Cambridge; † 10. August 1882 bei Khelat et Nakhl) war ein englischer Orientalist. The Desert of the Exodus (1872) Edward Henry Palmer studierte bis 1867 in Cambridge im St. John s College. Er nahm zwischen 1868 und 1869… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Edward Henry Palmer — (August 7, 1840 ndash;August 1882) was an English orientalist.Palmer was born in Cambridge as the son of a private schoolmaster. He was educated at The Perse School, and as a schoolboy showed the characteristic bent of his mind by picking up the… …   Wikipedia

  • Palmer (Familienname) — Palmer ist ein Familienname. Bekannte Namensträger Inhaltsverzeichnis A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Palmer (surname) — Palmer is a surname.Family name name = Palmer imagesize= caption= pronunciation = meaning = a pilgrim to the Holy Land, named from the palm worn to signify the journey region = England origin = Anglo Saxon related names = footnotes = [… …   Wikipedia

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Longfellow in 1868 by Julia Margaret Cameron Born February 27, 1807(1807 02 27) Portland, Maine, United States Died …   Wikipedia

  • Palmer [3] — Palmer (spr. pāmer), 1) Erastus Dow, amerikan. Bildhauer, geb. 2. April 1817 zu Pompey im Staate New York, gest. 1904, wohnte meist in Albany (N. Y.). Seine bekanntesten Werke sind: Ceres als Kind, Morgen und Abend, der gefesselte Friede, der… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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