birth_date: 1920-12-02 00:00:00
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name: Henry William Frederick Saggs
about: Henry William Frederick Saggs was an English classicist and orientalist.After studying theology at King's College London, Skaggs served with the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. After the war he attended the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where he studied Assyriology under Sidney Smith, earning his Ph.D. in 1953. Saggs taught at Baghdad University and Mosul University before becoming Chair of Semitic Languages in University College, Cardiff, where he served from 1966 until his retirement in 1983. Henry William Frederick Saggs was an English classicist and orientalist.After studying theology at King's College London, Skaggs served with the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. After the war he attended the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where he studied Assyriology under Sidney Smith, earning his Ph.D. in 1953. Saggs taught at Baghdad University and Mosul University before becoming Chair of Semitic Languages in University College, Cardiff, where he served from 1966 until his retirement in 1983. ...more
death_date: 2005-08-31 00:00:00