Henry Tattam (28 December 1789 – 8 January 1868,
Stanford Rivers
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,
Essex
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) was a
Church of England
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clergyman and
Coptic
Coptic may refer to:
Afro-Asia
* Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
* Coptic alphabet ...
scholar.
Life
Tattam was
Rector
Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to:
Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of St Cuthbert's
Bedford
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, 1822–1849, and from 1831 to 1849 also Rector of
Great Woolstone,
Buckinghamshire
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. He was
Archdeacon of Bedford
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from 1845 to 1866, Rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex from 1849, and a
Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen from 1853.
Works
Tattam was the author of various theological and philological works, including several editions and translations of Coptic texts. He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society
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in 1835. Tattam visited
Egypt
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and the
Holy Land
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in 1838–9, meeting the patriarch and acquiring
Coptic
Coptic may refer to:
Afro-Asia
* Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
* Coptic alphabet ...
and
Syriac Syriac may refer to:
*Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic
*Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region
* Syriac alphabet
** Syriac (Unicode block)
** Syriac Supplement
* Neo-Aramaic languages a ...
manuscripts for the
British Museum
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(manuscripts now in the
British Library
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). He received honorary degrees from
Trinity College Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
, motto_lang = la
, motto_English = It will last i ...
, the
University of Göttingen
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and the
University of Leiden
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.
Tattam in 1848 published ''The Apostolical Constitutions, or Canons of the Apostles'', which includes the so-called ''Alexandrine Sinodos'' (or ''Clementine Heptateuch'') made of the
Apostolic Church-Ordinance
The ''Apostolic Church-Ordinance'' (or ''Apostolic Church-Order'', ''Apostolic Church-Directory'' or ''Constitutio Ecclesiastica Apostolorum'') is an Oriental Orthodox Christian treatise which belongs to ''genre'' of the Church Orders. The work ...
, the
Egyptian Church Order and a free version of the eighth book of the
Apostolic Constitutions
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.
Works
* ''Helps to Devotion'', 1825
* ''Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language'', 1830
* ''A Defence of the Church of England Against the Attacks of a Roman Catholic Priest'', 1843
* ''A Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language'', 1863 (which was finally translated into Arabic by "Mina Saad Ibrahim" in 2010 under the title
الشامل في قواعد اللغة القبطية )
References
External links
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1789 births
1868 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society
19th-century English Anglican priests
Archdeacons of Bedford
English orientalists
English philologists