Quotes:Hyde, Thomas

Zirkoff, Boris

Hyde, Thomas. English Orientalist, b. at Billingsley, June 29, 1636; d. at Oxford, Feb. 18, 1703. Studied Oriental languages at Cambridge; assisted Walton in his edition of the Polyglot Bible. After various scholarly tasks, was appointed, 1691, Laudian professor of Arabic, and in 1697, regius professor of Hebrew and a canon of Christ Church. Discharged duties of Eastern interpreter to the Court. In his chief work, *Historia religionis veterum Persarum (Oxford, 1700, 4to; 2nd ed., 1760), he made the first attempt to correct from Oriental sources the errors of the Greek and Roman historians who had attempted to describe the religion of the ancient 512 Persians. He also published a Catalog of the Bodleian Library in 1674.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, pp. 511-512