Bar Hebraeus

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Bar Hebraeus was a 13th-century Syriac Orthodox bishop, polymath, and historian known for his extensive scholarly works on theology, philosophy, science, and history in the Middle East.

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Label Occurrences
Bar Hebraeus canonical 1
Gregory Bar Hebraeus 1

Statements (75)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Syriac Christian
Syriac Orthodox bishop
chronicler
historian
philosopher
physician
polymath
theologian
writer
activeInCentury 13th century
birthPlace Anatolia
Malatya Province
surface form: Malatya

Melitene
birthYear 1226
burialPlace Mar Mattai Monastery
near Mosul
deathPlace Mongol Ilkhanate
surface form: Ilkhanate

Maragheh
surface form: Maragha
deathYear 1286
education studied medicine
studied philosophy
studied under Muslim and Christian scholars
era Mongol period in the Middle East
fieldOfWork biblical exegesis
canon law
grammar
history
medicine
philosophy
theology
hasAlternativeName Bar ʿEbrāyā
Bar Hebraeus
surface form: Gregory Bar Hebraeus

Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-ʿIbrī
surface form: Ibn al-ʿIbrī
hasBirthName Abu’l-Faraj Gregory
Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-ʿIbrī
hasEthnicIdentity Arameans
surface form: Aramean

Syriac
hasLatinName Abulpharagius
influencedBy Aristotle
Avicenna
al‑Ghazali
surface form: al-Ghazali

earlier Syriac theologians
knownFor Christian theology
Syriac literature
grammatical works
historical chronicles
medical writings
philosophical encyclopedias
notableWork Book of the Dove
Chronicon Ecclesiasticum
Chronicon Syriacum
Cream of Science
Ethicon
Hewath Hekhmetha
Menarath Qudhshe
positionHeld Maphrian of the East
Syriac Orthodox metropolitan
bishop of Aleppo
bishop of Gubos
regionOfActivity Mongol Ilkhanate
surface form: Ilkhanid Persia

Middle East
Upper Mesopotamia
religion Oriental Orthodoxy
Syriac Orthodox Church
usedCalendar Seleucid era in his chronicles
wroteAbout astronomy
church history
ethics
logic
medicine
mysticism
natural philosophy
universal history
wroteInLanguage Arabic
Syriac
surface form: Classical Syriac

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Subject: Bar Hebraeus
Description of subject: Bar Hebraeus was a 13th-century Syriac Orthodox bishop, polymath, and historian known for his extensive scholarly works on theology, philosophy, science, and history in the Middle East.

Referenced by (2)

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Bar Hebraeus hasAlternativeName Bar Hebraeus
this entity surface form: Gregory Bar Hebraeus