Charles Taylor (1840–1908) was an English

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Life

Taylor was born on 27 May 1840 in London. He was educated at

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, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where graduated BA as 9th wrangler in 1862 and became a fellow of his college in 1864. He became Master of St John's in 1881. In 1874 he published an edition of '' Coheleth''; in 1877 ''Sayings of the Jewish Fathers'', an elaborate edition of the ''

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'' (2 ed., 1897); and in 1899 a valuable appendix giving a list of manuscripts. Taylor discovered the Jewish source of the ''

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'' in his ''Teaching of the Twelve Apostles'', 1886, and published also an ''Essay on the Theology of the Didache'', 1889. Taylor took a great interest in

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's work on

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, and the ''

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'' fragments presented to the

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are known as the Taylor-Schechter Collection. He was joint editor with Schechter of ''The Wisdom of Ben Sira'', 1899. He published separately ''Cairo Genizah Palimpsests'', 1900. He wrote also several works on geometry and participated in the creation and running of the journal ''

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''. On 19 October 1907 he married Margaret Sophia Dillon, daughter of the Hon. Conrad Dillon. He died in Nuremberg on 12 August 1908Janus: Papers of Charles Taylor
/ref> and is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.

References

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Bibliography

*''Who was Who: Vol. 1: 1897–1915''. London: A. & C. Black

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Charles 1840 births 1908 deaths Christian Hebraists People educated at King's College School, London Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Masters of St John's College, Cambridge British academic journal editors Vice-chancellors of the University of Cambridge