Pocock, Edward (2)

an English Orientalist, son of the preceding, was born at Oxford in 1647, and educated at the university of that place. He published, under his father's direction, a philosophical treatise of Ibn-Tofahil, with a Latin version and notes, entitled Philosophus autodidactus (Oxford, 1671, 4to). The same treatise was translated into English by Ockley. He was on the point of publishing the Description of Egypt by Abdallatif in Arabic and in Latin when, being refused in 1691 the succession to the chair left vacant by his father's death, he renounced entirely his Oriental studies. This valuable work remained long unpublished: the Arabic text was printed at Tübingen at the close of last century, and was almost immediately translated into German. White published in 1800 the original and Pocock's Latin version (Oxf. 4to), with notes of his own.

His brother THOMAS translated into English a Hebrew treatise of Manasseh ben-Israel (Of the Terms of Life, Lond. 1699,12mo). (J.H.W.)