John Wallis (Arabic scholar)

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John Wallis (1674 or 1675 – 28 January 1738) was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1703 until his death.

Laudian Professor of Arabic

The position of Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford was established in 1636 by William Laud, who at the time was Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Archbishop of Canterbury. The first professor was Edward Pococke, who was working as a chaplain in Aleppo in what is now Syria when Laud asked him to return to Oxford to take up the position. Laud's regulations for the professorship required lectures on Arabic grammar and literature to be delivered weekly during university vacations and Lent. He also provided that the professor's lectures were to be attended by all medical students and Bachelors of Arts at the university, although this seems not to have happened since Pococke had few students, despite the provision for non-attenders to be fined. In 1881, a university statute repealed Laud's regulations and provided that the professor was to lecture in "the Arabic, Syriac, and Chaldee Languages", and attached the professorship to a fellowship at St John's College.

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Wallis matriculated at the University of Oxford as a member of Wadham College on 1 July 1691 at the age of 17. He became a demy (a scholar) of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1693, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1695, his Master of Arts degree in 1698 and his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1709. He was appointed as a Fellow of Magdalen College in 1703, holding this post until 1717. He was also appointed as Laudian Professor of Arabic in 1703. He was rector of Aythorpe Roding in Essex between 1707 and 1708, vicar of East Worldham, Hampshire, between 1713 and 1718, and rector of Everleigh, Wiltshire, from 1716 onwards. He died on 28 January 1738. [1]

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  1. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1891–92). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714 Volume 4. p. 1562. ISBN   978-1-85506-843-8 . Retrieved 6 January 2010.
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