Oskar Braun (1862-1931) was a Syriac specialist and ordained Catholic priest.
He was born in Dillingen an der Donau in 1862 and was ordained as a priest in 1885, becoming chaplain at Santa Maria dell’Anima.
He studied languages with Ignazio Guidi while in Rome, and obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Munich in 1890.
He worked as a professor of Semitic languages at the University of Würzburg from 1894, and of patristics from 1907 until his retirement in 1927.
[1] His work Ausgewählte Akten Persischer Märtyrer ("Selected Acts of Persian Martyrs"), published in 1915,[2] is still cited by scholars today.