Addai Scher

Addai Scher, Addai also Sher ( born March 3 1867 in Chaklawa in Kirkuk; ? † 17 () June 1915 ) was an Orientalist and bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Life

The son of a Chaldean priest visited from 1879, the seminary of the Dominicans in Mosul and was on August 13, 1889 priests, consecrated on November 30, 1902 Bishop. He served as Archbishop of Seert ( Siirt ) of the Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Catholic, operation and next published numerous Orientalist research.

On June 6, 1915 Archbishop shear was arrested in the wake of the Ottoman persecution of Christians, was initially able to escape with the help of non-Christian friends, however, a week it was later discovered on the road to Mosul. Since he refused to convert to Islam, they shot him. According to one report, he was beheaded and his head delivered to Governor. Scher's residence, the Jacob's Monastery at Seert (now the school building ), library and scientific estate was plundered, scattered or destroyed. Nineteen manuscripts of his collection were obtained by previously donated to the Bibliothèque nationale de France ( BnF ) in Paris. More valuable items, supposedly buried in boxes and leather bags on site, have not been discovered or concealed their find.