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Literary activity in Syriac revived greatly in the late 19th century. Notable figures include: * T'omo Audo, Chaldaean metropolitan of Urmia (East Syriac/Nestorian; 1853-1917) who compiled a very valuable Syriac-Syriac dictionary (1896, reprinted 1985) among other things. * The Syrian Catholic Patriarch Rahmani (West Syriac/Catholic; 1848-1929) * The Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ephrem Barsaum (West Syriac/Monophysite; 1887-1957) * Metropolitan Philoxenus Yuhanon Dolabani (West Syriac/Monophysite; 1885-1969) who translated two works from Arabic into Syriac: Barsaum's important ''History of Syriac literature'' and Paulos Behnam's drama ''Theodora''. In the 20th century some secular works have also been composed. Na'um Fa'yeq (West Syriac/Monophysite; 1868-1930) was one of the first to do this. He founded the periodical ''Start of the East'' in 1908. Various secular western works have also been translated into Syriac: * Bernardin de Saint Pierre, ''Paul et Virginie'', a romantic novel, was translated by Paulos Gabriel (West Syriac/Monophysite; d. 1971) and Ghatta Maqdasi Elyas (West Syriac/Monophysite) and published in 1955.

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