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Archibald Sayce was born in 1845, in Shirehampton, Bristol, to a family of Shropshire descent. A delicate child who suffered from tuberculosis and got a late start.
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Archibald Sayce was born in 1845, in Shirehampton, Bristol, to a family of Shropshire descent. A delicate child who suffered from tuberculosis and got a late start.
He caught up with a private tutor and was reading Homer in Greek at ten. He attended The Queen's College, Oxford, becoming a fellow in 1869.
During his lifetime Sayce learned to write in about 20 ancient and modern languages. Appointed a fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford (1869), and shortly afterward a tutor (1870–90), he began writing the first of a long stream of works of wide-ranging scholarship. The appearance of his Assyrian Grammar, for Comparative Purposes (1872) and Elementary Grammar with Full Syllabary and Progressive Reading Book, of the Assyrian Language (1875) and a syllabary (1877) was interspersed with a number of Assyrian translations. He also wrote general linguistic works, including the Introduction to the Science of Language, 2 vol. (1880).
In 1890 he traveled in Egypt and was instrumental in securing two important ancient Greek manuscripts for the British Museum, including Aristotle’s Constitution of Athens, long thought to be lost. From 1891 to 1919 he was professor of Assyriology at Oxford. Major works of the later years of his career include The Early History of the Hebrews (1897), Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations (1898), and The Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions (1907). Sayce’s Reminiscences appeared in 1923.
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