William Wright (missionnaire et auteur)
William Wright ( - ) était un missionnaire irlandais. Il passa 10 ans en mission à Damas  (env. 1865-1875), un séjour qui sera à la base de nombreuses de ses publications. Il est l'auteur de L'Empire des Hittites (1884), qui a présenté au grand public l'histoire de la civilisation hittite récemment découverte. Il est l'auteur de la citation  (une absence de preuve n'est pas une preuve).

Principales Publications 

 The Empire Of The Hittites, with the Decipherment of the Hittite Inscriptions by Professor A.H. Sayce
 An Account Of Palmyra And Zenobia: With Travels And Adventures In Bashan And The Desert
 The Book Of Jonah In Four Oriental Versions, Namely Chaldee, Syriac, Aethiopic And Arabic, With Glossaries
 Contributions To The Apocryphal Literature Of The New Testament, Collected And Edited From Syriac Manuscripts In The British Museum
 A Short History Of Syriac Literature
 The Book Of Kalilah & Dimnah: Translated From Arabic Into Syriac
 The Kamil Of El-Mubarrad, Edited For The German Oriental Society For The Manuscripts Of Leyden, St. Petersburg, Cambridge, And Berlin, Volume I, Parts I-X.
 The Kamil Of El-Mubarrad, Edited For The German Oriental Society For The Manuscripts Of Leyden, St. Petersburg, Cambridge, And Berlin, Volume II, Containing The Indexes And Critical Notes, Parts XI And XII.
 Lectures On The Comparative Grammar Of The Semitic Languages
 The Travels Of Ibn Jubair, Edited From A MS. In The University Library Of Leyden
 A Grammar Of The Arabic Language, Translated From The German By Caspari, And Edited With Numerous Additions And Corrections, Volume I
 A Grammar Of The Arabic Language, Translated From The German By Caspari, And Edited With Numerous Additions And Corrections, Volume II
 The Ecclesiastical History Of Eusebius In Syriac, Edited From The Manuscripts, (also by) Norman McClean, M.A., With A Collation Of The Ancient Armenian Version By Dr. Adalbert Merx
 Catalogue Of The Ethiopic Manuscripts In The British Museum Acquired Since The Year 1847
 A Catalogue Of The Syriac Manuscripts Preserved In The Library Of The University Of Cambridge, With An Introduction And Appendix By Stanley Arthur Cook, M.A., Volume I
 A Catalogue Of The Syriac Manuscripts Preserved In The Library Of The University Of Cambridge, With An Introduction And Appendix By Stanley Arthur Cook, M.A., Volume II
 Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne, Volume I, Part I
 Analectes sur l'histoire et la littérature des Arabes d'Espagne, Volume I, Part II

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Naissance en janvier 1837
Décès en juillet 1899
Décès à 62 ans