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Bar Hebraeus
Gregory Barhebraeus or Bar Hebraeus (; 1226 – 30 July 1286), also known as Abu al-Faraj and in Latin, Abulpharagius, was the maphrian Catholicos of the East (regional primate) of the Catholicate of the East under the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1264 until his death in 1286. He is recognised as one of the most accomplished and multifaceted academics of the medieval Syriac Christian world, with important contributions to the fields of theology, philosophy, history, linguistics, medicine, and the natural sciences.
Theodor Nöldeke
German orientalist and scholar (1836–1930)
E. A. Wallis Budge
British academic (1857–1934)
Paul de Lagarde
German polymath, biblical scholar and orientalist (1827-1891)
Carl Brockelmann
German orientalist (1868–1956)
Giuseppe Simone Assemani
Maronite orientalist (1687-1768)
William Wright
British orientalist and professor (1830–1889)
Eduard Sachau
German orientalist (1845–1930)
Ignatius Afram I Barsoum
120th Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (1887–1957)
Eberhard Nestle
German scholar (1851–1913)
Sebastian Brock
British syriacist
Christoph Luxenberg
Islamic studies scholar
Francis Crawford Burkitt
British theologian and scholar (1864-1935)
William Cureton
British orientalist (1808–1864)
Stefano Evodio Assemani
Catholic archbishop
Alphonse Mingana
British academic (1878-1937)
Adalbert Merx
German theologian and orientalist (1838–1909)
Nina Pigulevskaya
Soviet historian (1894-1970)
Jean Baptiste Abbeloos
Belgian orientalist
Carl Bezold
German orientalist (1859–1922)
Samir Khalil Samir
Egyptian theologian
Gustav Bickell
German orientalist (1838–1906)
Paul Bedjan
Assyrian priest and academic (1838–1920)
Arthur Võõbus
Estonian theologian, orientalist and church historian (1909-1988)
Thomas Joseph Lamy
Biblical scholar, orientalist. (1827–1907)
George Lamsa
Turkish biblical scholar (1892–1975)
Robert Payne Smith
Dean of Canterbury (1818–1895)
Pius Zingerle
Scholar, Syrian specialist (1801–1881)
Polycarpus Augin (Eugene) Aydin
Syriac Orthodox Ecclesiastical authority
Iain Richard Torrance
American theologian
Syriac studies
the study of the Syriac language and Syriac Christianity
François Nau
French priest, mathematician and orientalist (1864-1931)
Geoffrey Khan
Professor of Semitic Languages
Youakim Moubarac
Islamologist, Orientalist and Arabist (1924–1995)
Ernest Walter Brooks
English ancient historian and Syriac scholar (1863-1955)
Estiphan Panoussi
American philosopher
Mar Sarhad Yawsip Jammo
Prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church who presides over the Eparchy of St. Peter The Apostle in the United States
Antonio Maria Ceriani
Italian philologist (1828-1907)
Andreas Masius
Belgian priest (1514-1573)