An Egyptian Traveller in the Republic of Letters: Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt
An Egyptian Traveller in the Republic of Letters: Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt
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文学共和国中的埃及旅行者：约瑟夫斯·巴巴图斯或科普特人阿布达克努斯
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10.2307/751466
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发表时间：
1994
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0.2
通讯作者：
A. Hamilton
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A. Hamilton
Yusuf ibn Abut Dhaqn（“胡须之父”）是埃及科普特人。在欧洲，他被称为约瑟夫斯·阿布达克努斯（Josephus Abudacnus）或巴巴图斯（Barbatus），是世纪早期到文学共和国访问的外国人之一。其他说阿拉伯语的基督徒确实在他之前访问过西方。16世纪，有相当数量的人聚集在罗马，但很少有人敢走得更远：马尔丁的詹姆斯二世党人摩西在16世纪50年代中期前往维也纳，以出版叙利亚语的《新约》。很久以后，在1614年，马龙派Gabriel Sionite和John Hesronite被Savary de Breves从罗马带到巴黎。巴伯图斯的旅行范围更广。从罗马，他前往法国，然后到英格兰，荷兰南部，德国和奥地利，由王子和主教的支持，并会见了一些最杰出的知识分子的时间。尽管他的同时代人和后来的学者都指责他欺诈，“他随时准备篡夺学术头衔，并决心教授东方语言，他的知识有时是有限的，他有一个非凡的才能收集杰出的熟人。他把自己的成功归功于他在展示自己时的大胆以及一定的个人魅力;而且，在欧洲阿拉伯语研究处于起步阶段的时候，人们对近东的语言和文化越来越好奇，巴巴图斯的多才多艺，尽管肤浅，能力受到高度评价。由于他有些不寻常的出版物，他的《希伯来窥镜》出版于1615年，他的《雅各比塔鲁姆历史》于1675年死后首次出版，并在18世纪重新编辑，巴巴图斯长期以来一直吸引着历史学家和目录学家。他成了传奇人物。他曾是耶稣会士的谣言很快就被驱散了。他在牛津教阿拉伯语
Yusuf ibn Abut Dhaqn (the 'father of the beard') was an Egyptian Copt. Known in Europe as Josephus Abudacnus or Barbatus, he was one of the more exotic visitors to the Republic of Letters in the early seventeenth century. Other Arabic-speaking Christians had indeed visited the west before him. A substantial number assembled in Rome in the sixteenth century, but few ventured much further: the Jacobite Moses of Mardin went to Vienna in the mid-1550s in order to work on the publication of the Syriac New Testament. Far later, in 1614, the Maronites Gabriel Sionite and John Hesronite were brought from Rome to Paris by Savary de Breves. Barbatus was more widely travelled. From Rome he made his way to France, then to England, the Southern Netherlands, Germany and Austria, supported by princes and prelates and encountering some of the most eminent intellectuals of the time. Despite the accusations of fraudulence made both by his contemporaries and by later scholars,' his readiness to usurp academic titles and his determination to teach oriental languages of which his knowledge was sometimes limited, he had a remarkable aptitude for collecting distinguished acquaintances. He owed his success to his boldness in presenting himself as well as to a certain personal charm; and, at a time when European Arabic studies were in their infancy and there was a growing curiosity about the languages and cultures of the Near East, the versatile, albeit superficial, capacity of Barbatus was highly prized. On account of his somewhat unusual publications, his Speculum hebraicum published in 1615 and his Historia Jacobitarum seu Coptorum, first published posthumously in 1675 and reedited into the eighteenth century, Barbatus has long attracted historians and bibliographers. He became the subject of legends. The rumour that he had been a Jesuit was swiftly dispelled. Others-that he taught Arabic at Oxford