Andreas Masius
Andreas Masius (or Maes) (30 November 1514 – 7 April 1573) was a Catholic priest, humanist and one of the first European
He was born in Lennik, Flemish Brabant.
Following his education, and after a short period of training at
Masius studied Hebrew in Leuven, Arabic in Rome with
De Paradiso Commentarivs : Scriptvs Ante Annos Prope Septingentos / à Mose Bar-Cepha Syro; ... Adiecta Est Etiam Divi Basilii Caesariensis Episcopi leiturgia siue anaphora ex vetustissimo codice Syrica lingua scripto. Praetera professiones fidei duæ, altera Mosis Mardeni Iacobitæ ... altera Sulaçe siue Siud Nestoriani ... Omnia ex Syrica lingua nuper tralata per Andream Masivm ... Antverpiæ, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1569.
In 1571 Masius published his Grammatica linguae syricae as well as the dictionary Syrorum Peculium. Hoc est, vocabula apud Syros scriptores passim vsurpata, at the Plantin press in Antwerp. In 1574 it was published his work Josuae Imperatoris historia illustrata atque explicata, that included some Hexaplaric readings.
He died in Zevenaar in 1573.
Literature
- Albert van Roey: Les études syriaques d'Andreas Masius. In: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 9 (1978), 141-158.
- M. Lossen, Briefe von Andreas Masius und seinen Freunden (1538)
- J. W. Wesselius, The Syriac Correspondence of Andreas Masius: A Preliminary Report
External links
- Syriac Mss at Yale - contains an account of Masius's life.
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