Gustaf Lillieblad

Gustaf Lillieblad or Gustaf Peringer (6 March 1651 – 5 January 1710) was a Swedish orientalist, professor and librarian. [1]

Biography

Gustaf Peringer was born at Strängnäs in Södermanland, Sweden. His father Lars Fredrik Peringer (1613-1687) was senior master at the gymnasium. His brother Johan Peringskiöld (1654-1720) was secretary of the National College of Antiquities. His surname would be changed to Lillieblad upon acquiring noble title. [2]

Peringer entered to Uppsala University in 1671, where his interest was directed to the Eastern languages, mainly Persian, Turkish and Arabic, In 1675 he published a dissertation on the subject. He traveled extensively but mainly in the European continent, gaining knowledge of the languages including Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac, Arabic, Turkish, and Ethiopian languages. He returned to Sweden in 1681, and was appointed professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Uppsala. King Charles XII sent him to Poland to study Karaite Judaism, which led to the publication in 1691 of Epistola de Karaitis Lithuaniae ad Johan Ludolphum. [3] In 1695, was appointed royal secretary and censor librorum and was appointed court librarian of the Royal Library in 1703.

Selected works
  • Concio laudibus nobilium in orbe Eoo idiomatum dicta, Stockholm, 1674.
  • Duo codices Talmudici avoda sacra et Tamid cum paraphrasi latina, Altdorf, 1680.
  • Mos. Maimonidae tractatus de primitiis, cum vers. Anal. Upsal, 1694-95.
  • De templo Herculis Gaditano, Stockholm, 1695.
  • Historia rerum AEgyptiacarum ab initiis cultae religionis ad ann. Hegirae, Stockholm, 1698.
gollark: Apparently they just sit there for ages looking at things with incredibly underpowered eyes (which they're able to get useful images out of via combining images over lots of time or something) and planning, then do things.
gollark: They can do stuff like plan ambushes in advance. Very cool.
gollark: Fairly advanced cognition running on a brain several orders of magnitude smaller than a human's via ridiculous levels of timesharing.
gollark: Speaking of spiders, have you heard of Portia spiders? They're very cool.
gollark: One molecule of spider contains one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms, giving an atomic weight of 18.

References
  1. "Gustaf Lillieblad". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  2. "Johan Peringskiöld". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  3. Biografia universale antica e moderna ossia Storia per alfabeto, Volume 32, Compiled by a French Society of the Learned; Specific entry by Catteau-Calleville; Republished in Italian by Presso Giovanni Battista Missiaglia, Venice (1826); page 369.
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