Thomas Hyde
✓ Source-basedstableBritish orientalist (1636-1703)
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Thomas Hyde was an English linguist, historian, librarian, classicist, and orientalist.
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About this person
Thomas Hyde was an English linguist, historian, librarian, classicist, and orientalist. His chief work was the 1700 De Vetere Religione Persarum [On the Ancient Religion of the Persians], the first attempt to use Arab and Persian sources to correct the errors of Greek and Roman historians in their descriptions of Zoroastrianism and the other beliefs of the ancient Persians, in addition to producing translations of some Zoroastrian texts.
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Lived 1636 to 1703 · aged 66
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