Thomas Hyde

Thomas Hyde ( born June 29, 1636 at Billingsley Bridgnorth, Shropshire, † February 18, 1703 in Oxford ) was an English orientalist and linguist. The first mention of the word dualism goes back to him.

Early on, his father, who was rector, knowledge gave him in the Near Eastern languages. In his sixteenth year he began studying at King's College in Cambridge at Abraham Wheelock. His rapid progress in understanding the Arabic, Persian and Syriac texts enabled him to collaborate with Brian Walton at an output of the Polyglot Bible.

As a chess historian Hyde in 1689 came with the book Historia shailudii in appearance, is considered the first scientific chess history book.

In 1691 he was appointed professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford.

  • Orientalist
  • Linguist
  • Chess historian
  • Bodleian Library
  • Briton
  • Born in 1636
  • Died in 1703
  • Man
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