1. Louis Cheikho was a Jesuit Chaldean Catholic priest, Orientalist and Theologian.
12 Facts About Louis Cheikho
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Louis Cheikho pioneered Eastern Christian and Assyrian Chaldean literary research and made major contributions to the publication of manuscript texts.
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Louis Cheikho was born in Mardin, Turkey on February 5,1859.
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Louis Cheikho's father was an ethnic Assyrian, and a member of the Chaldean Catholic Church, whose Assyrian family had been based at Mardin for at least three centuries.
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Louis Cheikho's mother was an Armenian named Elizabeth Schamse, who took him on pilgrimage to the Holy Land when he was 9-years old.
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In 1868, Cheikho joined his brother at the Maronite Jesuit Seminary in Ghazir, Lebanon.
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Louis Cheikho adopted at that time the name of 'Louis' out of devotion for the young Jesuit saint Louis Gonzaga.
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In 1888, Louis Cheikho travelled to Great Britain for theological studies in preparation for the priesthood.
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Louis Cheikho was ordained priest by the Chaldean Church of the East on 8 September 1891.
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Louis Cheikho then spent one year in Austria and another year in Paris.
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Louis Cheikho is perhaps the founder of modern publications of unpublished Eastern Christian texts, especially Christian Arabic texts.
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Louis Cheikho founded, in 1898, the journal Al-Machriq, and contributed many articles and publications to its pages.