Stanley Arthur Cook (12 April 1873 – 26 September 1949) wasRegius Professor of Hebrew at theUniversity of Cambridge from 1932 to 1938.[1][2]
Cook was born inKing's Lynn, the son of John Thomas Cook of Leicester. He was educated atWyggeston Grammar School, Leicester, and read the Semitic Languages tripos atGonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in 1894 and won the Mason Hebrew Prize and Jeremie Septuagint Prize.[1][2] Employed for several years on the editorial staff ofEncyclopedia Biblica, in 1904 he was appointed a college lecturer (at Caius) in Hebrew, a position he maintained until his appointment as Regius Professor in 1932. He was also a university lecturer in comparative religion from 1912 to 1920 and joint editor ofThe Cambridge Ancient History.[2]
Cook married Annette Bell, who predeceased him.[2] He died in Cambridge on 26 September 1949.
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