CHEYNE

cheyne, thomas kelly (1841- ), english divine and biblical critic, was born in london, and educated at merchant taylors' school and oxford. subsequently he studied german theological methods at gottingen. he was ordained in 1864, and held a fellowship at balliol college, oxford, 1868-1882. during the earlier part of this period he stood alone in the university as a teacher of the main conclusions of modern old testament criticism. in 1881 he was presented to the rectory of tendring, in essex, and in 1884 he was made a member of the old testament revision company. he resigned the living of tendring in 1885 on his appointment to the oriel professorship, which carried with it a canonry at rochester. in 1889 he delivered the bampton lectures at oxford. in 1908 he resigned his professorship. he consistently urged in his writings the necessity of a broad and comprehensive study of the scriptures in the light of literary, historical and scientific considerations. his publications include commentaries on the prophets and hagiographa, and lectures and addresses on theological subjects. he was a joint editor of the _encyclopaedia biblica_ (london, 1899-1903), a work embodying the more advanced conclusions of english biblical criticism. in the introduction to his _origin of the psalter_ (london, 1891) he gave an account of his development as a critical scholar. chezy, antoine leonard de (1773-1832), french orientalist, was born at neuilly on the 15th of january 1773. his father, antoine de chezy (1718-1798), was an engineer who finally became director of the ecole des fonts et chaussees. the son was intended for his father's profession; but in 1799 he obtained a post in the oriental department of the national library. about 1803 he began the study of sanskrit, though he possessed neither grammar nor dictionary, and by great labour he obtained sufficient knowledge of the language to be able to compose in it verses said to possess great elegance. he was the first professor of sanskrit appointed in the college de france (1815), a chevalier of the legion of honour, and a member of the academie des inscriptions. he died in 1832. among his works were _medjouin_ _et leila_ (1807), from the persian; _yadjanadatta badha_ (1814) and _la reconnaissance de sacountala_ (1830), from the sanskrit; _l'anthologie erotique d'amrou_ (1831), published under the pseudonym d'apudy. see the _memoires_ of the academie des inscriptions (new series, vol. xii.), where there is a notice of chezy by silvestre de sacy.