Alphonse Mingana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British academic
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Place of Birth: Kurdistan Region, Iraq
About Alphonse Mingana
- Alphonse Mingana (born as Hurmiz Mingana; Syriac: ???? ??????, in 1878 at Sharanesh, a village near Zakho (present day Iraq) - died 5 December 1937 Birmingham, England) was an ethnic Assyrian theologian, historian, Syriacist, orientalist and a former priest who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham.
- Like the majority of Assyrians in the Zakho region, his family belonged to the Chaldean Catholic Church.
- Alphonse was born to Paolus and Maryam Nano, and had seven siblings. His reputation was attested to by Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII in a scathing testimony of Mingana in his Homilies of Mar Narsai Vol.
- 1 (San Francisco - 1970), where part of the lengthy footnote 46 on page Li states: "It should be pointed out that Mingana was not the only Chaldean priest who prostituted his learning and consience in order to ingratiate himself with his Latin masters.
- This is true of all the Chaldeans who have edited and published the literature of the Church of the East."
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