William Guise

William Guise (Guilelmus Guisius) (c.1653–1683), was an English orientalist.

For other people named William Guise, see William Guise (disambiguation).

Life

He went to Oriel College, Oxford at age 16.[1] He was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1674 to 1680, being granted an MA in 1677.[2] He spent the last years of his life in St Mary's College, Oxford.[3]

Works

He is known for his scholarly work on Zeraim, an order of the Mishnah, for which he produced a Latin translation and commentary. He made use of a wide range of Islamic literature, and particularly relied on the Arabic dictionaries of Fairuzabadi and Jauhari.[2][4][5] It was published as Misnae Pars (1690), edited by Edward Bernard.

gollark: It can't be worse than all the big C codebases out there.
gollark: Yes but not the second one.
gollark: Write conversion to/from null terminated ones and maybe some basic functions to operate on it.
gollark: Interesting. Implement.
gollark: Done. Cognitohazard uploaded.

References
  1. Anthony à Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, vol. IV (1813, third edition edited by Philip Bliss)
  2. Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  3. R.W. Jeffrey, A Forgotten College of Oxford.
  4. Mordechai Feingold, Oriental Studies, p. 493 in Trevor Henry Aston, Nicholas Tyacke (editors), The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford (1984).
  5. Joyce M. Horn, Canons of Christ Church: Sixth prebend, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: volume 8: Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough dioceses (1996), pp. 100–102.


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