MALAN, SOLOMON CAESAR: Orientalist; b. at Geneva Apr. 22, 1812; d. at Bournemouth (24 m. w.s.w. of Southampton), England, Nov. 25, 1894. He was of an old Waldensian family, and the son of C6sar Henri Abraham Malan (q.v.). He was educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (B.A., 1837; M.A., 1843), and was ordered deacon in 1838 and ordained priest in 1843. From 1838 to 1840 he was classical lecturer at Bishop's College, Calcutta. He was then curate of Alverstoke, Hampshire (1843-44); Croweombe, Somersetehire (1844-45); vicar of Broadwindsor, Dorsetshire (1845-85); rural dean (1846-53); and prebendary of Salisbury cathedral (1870-75). Mala,n was a good linguist, being acquainted with twenty-five to thirty languages. He made two or three journeys to the East after his return from India, one in particular to Nineveh, passing through the Caucasus and preaching in Georgian at Kutais. Among his numerous works may be mentioned: Outline of Bishop's College arid of its Missions (London; 1843); Plain Exposition of the Apostles' Creed (1847); Systematic Catalogue of the Eggs of British Birds (1848); Vindication of the Authorised Version of the English Bible (1856); Aphorisms on Drawing (1856); Magdata: a Day by the Sea of Galilee (1857); Bethany: a Pilgrimage (1857); Coasts of Tyre and Sidon (1858); Letters to a Young Missionary (1858); On Ritualism (1867); Outline of the English Jewish Church (1867); Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, According to Scripture, Grammar, and the Faith (1868); Parables of Jesus Christ, Explained t0 Co9b?it1`y ChUf21t (2 VOL4., 1872); Miracles of Our Lord, Explained to Country Children (1881); and Original Not, on the Book of Proverbs (3'vols. 1889-93). He also translated many works, chiefly religious, from the Russian, Welsh, Armenian, Arabic, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Chinese, Japanese and other languages; among them: the San Taxe King (from the Chinese; 1856); the Gospel according to St. John (from the eleven oldest versions; 1862); History of the Georgian Church (from the Russian; 1866); Life and Times of St. Gregory the Illuminator (from the Armenian; 1868); Conflicts of the Holy Apostles (from the Armenian; 1871); Misamo, the Japanese air,

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(from the Japanese; 1871); History of the Copts, and of their Church (from the Arabic; 1873); and The Book of Adam and Eve (from the Ethiopic; 1882).

Bibliography: A biography was written by his son, A. N. Malan, London, 1897, and a notice by Macdonnell ap peared in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1898; cf. DNB, Supplement, vol. UL 133-134r