Daoud, Francis
Daoud, Francis
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Daoud, Francis (1870–1939) [Chald.]
达乌德，弗朗西斯 (Daoud, Francis) (1870–1939) [迦勒底 (Chald.)]
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Bishop and translator.
主教与翻译家
He was born in Ārādn near al-ʿAmadiyya, and in 1883 joined the Seminary of St. John . He was ordained a priest in 1893 by Patr. Eliya ʿAbū al-Yūnān, and in 1910 was consecrated bp. for al-ʿAmadiyya by Patr. Emmanuel Toma. In 1914 and during World War I he was accused of being a spy against the government and was under house arrest in Mosul until he was proven innocent. Then he left to Ārādn where he died in 1939.
他出生于阿马迪耶 (al-ʿAmadiyya) 附近的阿拉德恩 (Ārādn)，1883 年加入圣约翰神学院 (Seminary of St. John)。1893 年由宗主教 (Patr.) 伊利雅·阿布·优南 (Eliya ʿAbū al-Yūnān) 晋铎，1910 年由宗主教 (Patr.) 以马内利·托马 (Emmanuel Toma) 祝圣为阿马迪耶 (al-ʿAmadiyya) 主教 (bp.)。1914 年及第一次世界大战 (World War I) 期间，他被指控为政府间谍，并在摩苏尔 (Mosul) 被软禁，直至被证明无罪。随后他返回阿拉德恩 (Ārādn)，于 1939 年去世。
He translated into Syriac Alfonse Muzzarelli’s Il mese di Maria ossia il mese di maggio (1785) from an Arabic version and published it under the title Méditations pour chaque jour du mois de Marie (Mosul, 1907).
他将阿方斯·穆扎雷利 (Alfonse Muzzarelli) 的《玛丽亚之月或五月》(Il mese di Maria ossia il mese di maggio, 1785) 从阿拉伯语版本译成叙利亚语，并以《玛丽亚月每日默想》(Méditations pour chaque jour du mois de Marie, 摩苏尔 (Mosul), 1907) 为题出版。
References
Abūna, Adab, 507.
Macuch, Geschichte, 412.
Citation
George A. Kiraz. 2011. “Daoud, Francis.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Beth Mardutho. https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Daoud-Francis.