Gregorius bar Hebraeus - ܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ
http://syriaca.org/person/239
“Maph. (since 1264) and polymath.” 1
Names
- ܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ
- Gregorius bar Hebraeus
- ܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ6
- ܡܪܝ ܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ ܡܦܪܝܢܐ ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ4
- ܡܳܪܝ ܓܪܺܝܓܳܘܪܝܘܣ ܡܰܦܪܝܳܢܐ ܒܰܪ ܥܶܒܪܳܝܐ4
- مار غريغوريوس ابو الفرج الملطي مفريان المشهور بابن العبري3
- Abū al-Faraj1
- Barhebraeus1
- Barhebraeus1
- Gīgōrīyōs bar ʾEḇrayā6
- Gregorius Abu-l-Farag, Barhebraeus11
- Gregory Abu-l-Faraj, Bar ʿEbraya [Bar Hebraeus]
- Gregory Bar Hebraeus
- Gregory Bar-Hebraeus
- GRÉGOIRE BAR HÉBRAEUS7
- Grégoire Bar-Hebraeus6
- Grigorīyos bar ʿEbroyo
- Bar ʿEbroyo, Gregory
- Bar ʿEbroyo, Grigorios1
- Gregorius Bar Hebraeus2
- Grégoire Barhebraeus6
- Mar Gregorius Bar Hebraeus2
Sex
male7
Birth
1225/61
Descriptions
Gregory Bar Hebraeus was commerated as a celebrated writer and polymath of the Syrian Orthodox church. He was born near Melitene, the son of a doctor named Aaron. Their family fled to Antioch in 1234. He became a monk and then Bishop. He became the Maphrian of the Syrian orthodox church, and spent much time near the communities near the monastery of Mar Mattai. He wrote on a wide variety of topics, from theology to medicine.
Attestations
Gregorius bar Hebraeus is commemorated in Gregory Bar-Hebraeus (text) — [http://syriaca.org/work/1524] .
6Gregorius bar Hebraeus is commemorated in Bar Hebraeus (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/1787] .
6Gregorius bar Hebraeus is commemorated in Bar Hebraeus (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/1826] .
6Notes
“Maph. (since 1264) and polymath.” 1
Barsaum, Lu 'lu '2, 510-36.
Status: draft
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Works Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 H. Takahashi, "Bar ʿEbroyo, Grigorios." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 54-56.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), entry: 235, pp: 463.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 411.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 443.
- 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Barhebraeus.
- 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 1790, 1431, 1725, 1769.
- 7 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 176.
- 8 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : II, 80-81.
- 9 François Nau, "Les "belles actions" de Mar Rabboula: évêque d'Edesse de 412 au 7 août 435 (ou 436)." Revue de l'histoire des religions vol. 103 (1931)., : 13 (1986), 279-312.
- 10 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), pp: 312-320.
- 11 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 165.
- 12 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), pp: 131-137.
- 13 Sebastian Paul Brock, A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature, 2nd ed., rev. and enlarged , Mōrān ʾEthʾō, vol. 9 (Kottayam: St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, 2008), pp: 64-69.
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- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
- German data entry by Samer Khader
- Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
- Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
- Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Arabic name entry by Jad Kaado
- Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
- Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
- Entries adapted from the work of Jean Maurice Fiey
- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne