Samuel Lee

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Samuel Lee (1783 – 1852) was an English Orientalist, born in Shropshire; professor at Cambridge, first of Arabic and then of Hebrew language; was the author of a Hebrew grammar and lexicon, and a translation of the Book of Job. Building on the work of missionary Thomas Kendall and New Zealand chief Hongi Hika he helped create the first dictionary of te Reo, the Māori language.

[edit] External links

• Anna Mary Lee, A scholar of a past generation: A brief memoir of Samuel Lee. London (1896)
• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

Persondata
NAME	Lee, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH	Longnor, Shropshire
DATE OF DEATH	December 16, 1852
PLACE OF DEATH	Barlay, Herts.

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