Carl Gottfried Woide

Carl Gottfried Woide (German: Karl Gottfried Woide) (1725–1790), also known in England as Charles Godfrey Woide, was an Orientalist.

Born to a German family in the Polish city of Leszno, he was a pastor of the Reformed church there till 1768. Woide lived in Britain from 1768 to 1790 and worked in the British Museum as a librarian.^[1] He was one of the first scholars to work on the Egyptian Sahidic texts.^[2] He examined the Codex Alexandrinus and published text of the New Testament from this codex in 1786. He owned a few pages from Uncial 070 (known as Fragmentum Woideanum).

He was elected in 1785 as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Works

Lexicon Ægyptiaco-Latinum, 1775.
Grammatica aegyptiaca utriusque dialecti (1778)
Novum Testamentum Graecum e codice ms. alexandrino, London 1786.
Appendix ad editionem Novi Testamenti graeci… in qua continentur fragmenta Novi Testamenti juxta interpretationem dialecti superioris Aegypti quae thebaica vel sahidica appellatur, Oxford 1799.

References

External links

Linnean Correspondence Karl Gottfried Woide to Carl Linnaeus (27 June 1775)
Normdaten - PND: 120403099

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Name	Woide, Carl Gottfried
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Short description	german orientalist
Date of birth	1725
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Date of death	1790
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