Quotes:Sayce, Archibald Henry

Zirkoff, Boris

Sayce, Archibald Henry. British Orientalist, b. at Shirehampton, Sept. 25, 1845, son of Rev. H. S. Sayce, vicar of Caldicot; d. 1933. Educ. at Bath and Queen’s College, Oxford; became a fellow, 1869. Prof, of Assyriology at Oxford, 1891-1919. Although his 427 conclusions have been modified since, it is impossible to overestimate his services to Oriental scholarship. Travelled widely in the East. Member of Old Testament Revision Company, 1874-84. Deputy prof, of compar. philology, Oxford, 1876-90. Hibbert Lecturer, 1887. Gifford Lecturer, 1900-02. Chief Works: Assyrian Grammar. London: Triibner & Co., 1872.—The Principles of Comparative Philology, ibid., 1875.—The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus. London: Rivington, Percival & Co., 1896.—The Religions of ancient Egypt and Babylonia. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1902.—The Ancient Empires of the East. New York: C. Scribner’s sons, 1884; many subs, ed.,—Monuments of the Hittites, 1881.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 10, pp. 426-427