Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Abraham Wheelock (1593 in Whitchurch, Shropshire – 1653) was an English linguist. He was the first Adams Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge, from around 1632. According to Robert Irwin he regarded it as part of his academic duty to discourage students from taking up the subject. Thomas Hyde was one of his pupils.Wheelock was librarian of the \"Public Library\" (i.e. Cambridge University Library), and was also Reader in Anglo-Saxon."@en }
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