b. 3 June 1857. d. 5 December 1901. Nationality: Scottish.
Translator and scholar. Born in Glasgow, Scotland. Educated at Glasgow University.
Studied Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages and literature. Travelled to France
and Italy (1889). Married Ida W. E. Rodriguez in 1889. Member of the Royal Asiatic
Society. Translator of Ottoman poetry including *Ottoman Poems translated into English
Verse in the Original Forms* (1882) and *Verses and Translations* (1902). Biographical
information: Sidney Lee, ed., *Dictionary of National Biography* (2nd supplement),
“Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson,” Smith, Elder & Co., 1912, pp. 100-101. (SCM, CC)