Oskar Braun (1862-1931) was a Syriac specialist and ordained Catholic priest. He was born in

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in 1862 and was ordained as a priest in 1885, becoming chaplain at

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. He studied languages with

Ignazio Guidi Ignazio Guidi (1844 – 18 April 1935) was an Italian orientalist. He became professor at the University of Rome. He is known as a Hebraist and for many translations. He learned semitic languages from Pius Zingerle and Father Vincenti, and ...

while in Rome, and obtained a doctoral degree from the

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in 1890. He worked as a professor of

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at the

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from 1894, and of

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from 1907 until his retirement in 1927. His work ''Ausgewählte Akten Persischer Märtyrer'' ("Selected Acts of Persian Martyrs"), published in 1915, is still cited by scholars today. His ''Timothei Patriarchae I Epistulae'', vol. 1, an edition and translation of Timothy I's letters, also remains current and was reprinted in 2009.

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