Райт Уильям (востоковед) (The William Wright (orientalist)).

Уильям Райт (англ. William Wright; 17 января 1830, Малайя (Бенгалия) - 22 мая 1889, Кембридж) - британский семитолог.

Учился в Сент-Эндрюсском университете, Университете Галле и Лейденском университете.

В 1855-1856 годах - профессор арабского языка в Университетском колледже Лондона, в 1856-1861 годах - в Дублине.

В 1861-1870 годах - сотрудник отдела рукописей Британского музея.

С 1870 года - Адамсовский профессор арабского языка в Кембридже.

С 1876 года - член-корреспондент Петербургской АН.

В обучении арабскому языку продолжает использоваться его «Грамматика».

Многие его работы по сирийской литературе сохраняют свою научною ценность, особенно каталоги Британской библиотеки и Кембриджской университетской библиотеки.

• The book of Jonah in four semitic versions: Chaldee, Syriac, Aethiopic and Arabic. London, 1857.
• A Grammar of the Arabic Language. 2 vols. London, 1859-1862.
• Contributions to the apocryphal literature of the New Testament / collected and edited from Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum, with an English translation and notes, by W. Wright. (1865).
• The departure of my Lady Mary from this world / edited from two Syriac MSS. in the British Museum, and translated by W. Wright. (1865) (Journal of sacred literature and Biblical record for January and April, 1865).
• The homilies of Aphraates, the Persian sage / Aphraates, the Persian sage. (1869).
• Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in The British Museum acquired since the year 1838. 3 vols. (1870).
• Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles / edited from Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum and other libraries by William Wright. 2 vols. (1871).
• Fragments of the Turras mamlla nahraya or Syriac grammar / of Jacob of Edessa : edited from mss. in the British Museum and the Bodleian Library by W. Wright. (1871).
• Fragments of the Curetonian Gospels / ed. by W. Wright. (1872).
• Fragments of the Homilies of Cyril of Alexandria on the Gospel of S. Luke. (1874).
• The chronicle of Joshua the stylite: composed in Syriac A.D. 507. With a translation into English and notes by W. Wright. (1882).
• The book of Kalilah and Dimnah / translated from Arabic into Syriac. (1884).
• S. Ignatius. Revised texts with introductions, notes, dissertations, and translations. Gr., Lat., Eng.-Syriac remains of S. Ignatius. (1885).
• Some apocryphal Psalms in Syriac. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, June 1887.
• Lectures on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages. Cambridge, 1890.
• A short history of Syriac literature. (1894).
• Epistolae Pilati et Herodis graece. (W. Wright’s translation of the Syriac version.) Gr. & Eng. (1897).
• Ecclesiastical history of Eusebius in Syriac / edited from the manuscripts by William Wright and Norman McLean, with a collation of the ancient Armenian version by Adalbert Merx; translated from the Greek by C.-F. Crusé. (1898).
• A Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge. By William Wright & Stanley Arthur Cook. (1901).

• Fück J. Die arabischen Studien in Europe. - Leipzig, 1955. - S. 172, 183, 185, 198, 200, 206, 215, 278, 280, 282.
• Bernhard Maier. Semitic Studies in Victorian Britain. A portrait of William Wright and his world through his letters. Würzburg, 2011.