User:Kansas Bear/Donald Sidney Richards
Donald Sidney Richards, was born in 1935 in Bristol, United Kingdom.[1]
Life[edit]
Donald was attending Oxford by 1953 and while at Merton College he read Literae Humaniores, before getting his degree in Arabic and Persian in 1957.[1] After two years in the royal navy he returned to Oxford at the behest of Professor A.F.L. Beeston, Freddie Beeston and Albert Hourani.[1] In 1960 he was given the Lectureship over Arabic, within the Faculty of Oriental Studies.[1] At St. Cross College, he gained an Official Fellowship in 1967, of which he was Vice-master from 1991-1995.[1] In 1983, he completed a sabbatical in Jerusalem as the Senior Research Fellow at the British School of Archeology.[1]
Donald retired in 2000 after forty years of teaching.[1]
References[edit]
Sources[edit]
- Robinson, Charles F. (2003). "Introduction". In Robinson, Chase F. (ed.). Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards. Brill.