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Bar Hebraeus

1226 - 1286

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Gregory Bar Hebraeus (Classical Syriac: ܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ, b. 1226 - d. 30 July 1286), known by his Syriac ancestral surname as Barebraya or Barebroyo, in Arabic sources by his kunya Abu'l-Faraj, and his Latinized name Abulpharagius in the Latin West, was a Maphrian (regional primate) of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1264 to 1286. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bar Hebraeus has received more than 153,211 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Bar Hebraeus is the 978th most popular writer (up from 1,018th in 2019), the 316th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 383rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Turkish Writer.

Bar Hebraeus is most famous for writing a chronicle of the world from creation to 1284.

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  • 150k

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  • 61.85

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Bar Hebraeus's Book of the dove
History
1919
... Kithâbhâ dhiyaunâ, seu, Liber columbae
1898
Biblische Synchronistik
1894
Specimen historiae Arabum, sive, Gregorii Abul Farajii Malatiensis, De origine & moribus Arabum
1650
Makhtevanut zavne men risha davrita ʻedama la-shant 1285
1987
The laughable stories collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar Hebræus
Syriac literature
1897
Ethicon; seu, Moralia
Texts and translations, Syriac language
1898
Tārīkh mukhtaṣar al-duwal
History, World history, Early works to 1800
A world chronicle from the creation of the Earth until the 1280s, written in Arabic by a learned bishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church drawing on a range of sources, for earlier periods drawing heavily on the Syriac <em>Chronicle</em> of Michael the Syrian, as well as Arabic and Persian sources for more contemporary history. Bar Hebraeus initially composed his history in Syriac as the first part of his <em>Maktebānūt Zabnē</em> (his so-called <em>Chronicon Syriacum</em>), and in reworking this work as this Arabic <em>tārīkh mukhtaṣar</em> ('compendious history') adapted his material to his readership, expanding and eliding earlier material. Bar Hebraeus is a valuable witness to the Mongol ascendancy in Iran and Iraq.
1663
Le livre des splendeurs
Grammar, Syriac language
1922
Le candélabre du sanctuaire de Grégoire Aboul'faradj dit Barhebraeus
Angels, Christianity, Demonology
1961
Le livre de l'ascension de l'esprit sur la forme du ciel et de la terre
Arab Astronomy, Astronomy, Arab
1899
The laughable stories collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar Hebræus
1897

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bar Hebraeus ranks 978 out of 7,302. Before him are Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Kurt Eisner, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Tannhäuser, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Donna Leon. After him are H. Rider Haggard, James Hadley Chase, Khachatur Abovian, Will Durant, David Grossman, and Aristarchus of Samothrace.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1226, Bar Hebraeus ranks 2. Before him is Charles I of Anjou. After him are Ata-Malik Juvayni, Guy, Count of Flanders, Bolesław V the Chaste, Sultan Walad, Herman VI, Margrave of Baden, Gertrude of Austria, Ulrich I, Count of Württemberg, Blanche of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany, and Maria of Brabant, Duchess of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1286, Bar Hebraeus ranks 2. Before him is Eric V of Denmark. After him are Alexander III of Scotland, Gurju Khatun, Zhenjin, Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq, William of Moerbeke, John I, Duke of Brittany, Sophia of Denmark, and Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Bar Hebraeus ranks 316 out of 1,347. Before him are Ephorus (-400), Agnes of Antioch (1153), Eutyches (380), Paul of Samosata (200), Anna Porphyrogenita (963), and Maria Laskarina (1206). After him are Tryphon, Respicius, and Nympha (null), Nikephoros I of Constantinople (758), Laskarina Bouboulina (1771), Simplicius of Cilicia (490), Mimnermus (-670), and Şehzade Bayezid (1612).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Bar Hebraeus ranks 20. Before him are Novatian (220), Dio Chrysostom (40), Ahmad Khani (1650), Ibn Hawqal (943), Aziz Nesin (1915), and Theodoret (393). After him are Mimnermus (-670), John Malalas (491), Zenodotus (-330), Alcman (-611), Aristophanes of Byzantium (-257), and Publilius Syrus (-100).

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