William Burckhardt Barker
William Burckhardt Barker (1810?–1856) was an English orientalist.
Life
Barker was born about 1810, at which time
Barker returned on 22 August 1835, to his father's residence at
Barker was for some time professor of the Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Hindustani languages at
Works
He accumulated materials for his major work Lares and Penates (1853), which was edited by William Francis Ainsworth.[1] Before this Barker had produced a polyglot volume entitled 'Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. The Speech of His Royal Highness Prince Albert translated into the principal European and Oriental Languages,’ London, 1851. Other works were:
- 'Turkish Tales in English;’
- 'A Practical Grammar of the Turkish Language; with Dialogues and Vocabulary,’ London, 1854;
- 'A Reading Book of the Turkish Language, with Grammar and Vocabulary,’ London, 1854;
- 'Baitál Pachísí; or, Twenty-five Tales of a Demon; a new edition of the Hindí Text, with each Word expressed in the Hindústání Character immediately under the corresponding word in Nágarí, and with a perfectly literal English interlinear translation, accompanied by a free translation in English at the foot of each page, and explanatory notes,’ Hertford, 1855. This work was edited by Edward Backhouse Eastwick, to whom it was dedicated.
- 'Odessa and its Inhabitants, by an English Prisoner in Russia,’ London, 1855;
- 'A short Historical Account of the Crimea, from the Earliest Ages and during the Russian Occupation,’ Hertford and London, the Preface of which is dated from 'Constantinople, 12 March 1855.'
References
- ^ 'Lares and Penates: or, Cilicia and its Governors; being a short Historical Account of that Province from the earliest times to the present day; together with a description of some Household Gods of the ancient Cilicians, broken up by them on their Conversion to Christianity, first discovered and brought to this country by the author,’ London, 1853.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Barker, William Burckhardt". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.