HYACINTH, FATHER. See Loyson, Charles.

HYDE, THOMAS: English Orientalist; b. at Billingsley (20 m. s.e. of Shrewsbury), Shropshire, June 29, 1636; d. at Oxford Feb. 18, 1703. He studied Oriental languages under his father, and in his sixteenth year entered King's College, Cambridge. A year later he was invited to London to assist Brian Walton on his Polyglot. He corrected the Arabic, Persian, and Syriac versions, transcribed into Persic characters the Persian translation of the Pentateuch, which had been printed in Hebrew characters at Constantinople, and appended a Latin version of his own. In 1658 he entered Queen's College, Oxford (M.A., 1659; D.D., 1682), where, in the same year, he became reader in Hebrew. In 1659 he was appointed under-keeper of the Bodleian Library, and from 1665 to 1701 he was librarian-in-chief. In 1666 he was made prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral, and in 1773 archdeacon of Gloucester. He became Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford in 1691, and regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church in 1697. Under Charles II., James II., and William III., he was interpreter and secretary in Oriental languages to the government. His principal work is the Histmria religionis veterum Persarum (Oxford, 1700; 2d ed. by T. Hunt, 1760), which was the first attempt at a scholarly treatment of the subject. Other writings were collected by Gregory Sharpe and published, with a Vita, under the title Syntagma dessertationum (2 vols., 1667).

Bibliography: A. h wood, Athena Ozonieneee, ed. P. Me% iv. 522627, London, 1820; DNB, uviii. 401-4o2.

HYDE, WILLIAM DE WITT: American Congregationalist; b. at Winchendon, Mass., Sept. 23, 1858. He was educated at Harvard (A.B:, 1879), Union Theological Seminary (1879-80), and Andover Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1882. After a pastorate of two years at Paterson, N. J., he became president of Bowdoin College in 1885. He has written Practical Ethics (New York, 1892); Social Theology (1895); Practical Idealism (1897); The Evolution of a College Student (1898);

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God's Education of Man (Boston, 1899); The Art of Optimism (New York, 1900); School Speaker and Reader (Boston, 1900); The Cardinal Virtues (New York, 1901); Jesus' Way (Boston, 1902); The New Ethics (New York, 1903); From Epicurus to Christ (1904); and Abba Father; or the Religion of Every Day Life (1908).