Nicolas Siouffi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nicolas Siouffi

Religious scholar, numismatist

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1829

Place of Birth: Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syria

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1901

Profession: diplomat, numismatist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Nicolas Siouffi (1829 (Damascus) – 1901 (unknown)) was a Syrian Christian, and later French citizen and vice-consul at Mosul, remembered for his study of Mandaeism. Mandaens were known locally in Arabic as ?ubba, which Siouffi identified with the Sabians, a People of the Book in the Quran..
Siouffi claimed to have identified 4000 Sabians in the Mandaean population.
This was well received by the theosophist G.
R.
S.
Mead, but received highly critical reviews from scholars, accusing Siouffi of ignorance and his teacher of dishonesty.