Samuel N. C. Lieu

Born in Hong Kong and educated at St. Paul's College, Lieu received a BA in Ancient and Medieval History from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1969. He later attended the University of Oxford, where he completed a DPhil in Ancient History in 1981, writing a comparative study on Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China.

From 1974-1976, Lieu worked as a Junior Research Fellow in Wolfson College, Oxford. He became a Lecturer in Ancient History at University of Warwick and was eventually promoted to full professor (1976-1996). In 1996, he became Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, becoming a Distinguished Professor in 2010 and retiring in 2016 and becoming Emeritus Professor in 2017.{{cite book |editor-last1=Parry |editor-first1=Ken |editor-last2=Mikkelsen |editor-first2=Gunner |title=Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads: Studies in Honour of Samuel N.C. Lieu |date=2022 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-51798-1 |page=xi |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-B9EAAAQBAJ&pg=PR11 |language=en |chapter=Foreword}}

He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (1981), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1983),

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1989),

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1999), and Fellow of the British Academy (2021).{{cite web |title=Professor Samuel Lieu FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/professor-samuel-lieu-fba/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=4 August 2022 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Professor Samuel Lieu |url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff57795.php |website=SOAS University of London |access-date=4 August 2022 |language=en}} A festschrift has been prepared in his honour, entitled Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads: Studies in Honour of Samuel N.C. Lieu (2022).{{cite book |editor-last1=Parry |editor-first1=Ken |editor-last2=Mikkelsen |editor-first2=Gunner |title=Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads: Studies in Honour of Samuel N.C. Lieu |date=2022 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-51798-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-B9EAAAQBAJ&pg=PR11 |language=en }}

He married Judith Lieu, a British theologian and historian of early Christianity, in 1976.{{Who's Who |year=2007 |title=Lieu, Prof. Judith Margaret |id=U245139 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245139 }}

• {{cite book |last1=Lieu |first1=Samuel |title=Manichaeism in Central Asia and China |date=1998 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-43983-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfAeEAAAQBAJ |language=en}}
• {{cite book |last1=Lieu |first1=Samuel N. C. |title=Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East |date=1994 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-29581-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-l5DwAAQBAJ |language=en}}
• {{cite book |last1=Lieu |first1=Samuel N. C. |title=Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China: A Historical Survey |date=1985 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-1088-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_vnAAAAIAAJ |language=en}}

• Lieu, Samuel N. C.; Thompson Glen L., eds. (2020). The Church of the East in Central Asia and China. Brepols. {{ISBN|9782503586649}}.

• {{cite book |editor-last1=Greatrex |editor-first1=Geoffrey |editor-last2=Lieu |editor-first2=Samuel N. C. |title=The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628 |date=2005 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-75645-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UGEAgAAQBAJ |language=en}}
• {{cite book |editor-last1=Lieu |editor-first1=Samuel N. C. |editor-last2=Hunter |editor-first2=Erica C. D. |editor-last3=Morano |editor-first3=Enrico |editor-last4=Pedersen |editor-first4=Nils Arne |title=Manichaeism East and West |date=2017 |publisher=Brepols Publishers n.v. |isbn=978-2-503-57457-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S6hVMQAACAAJ |language=en}}
• {{cite book |editor-last1=Lieu |editor-first1=Samuel N. C. |editor-last2=Montserrat |editor-first2=Dominic |title=Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend |date=1998 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-84185-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZOKAgAAQBAJ |language=en}}
• {{cite book |editor-last1=Lieu |editor-first1=Samuel N. C. |editor-last2=Montserrat |editor-first2=Dominic |title=From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views: A Source History |date=1996 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-09335-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XnTNWtBmhv8C |language=en}}
• {{cite book |editor-last1=Dodgeon |editor-first1=Michael H. |editor-last2=Lieu |editor-first2=Samuel N. C. |title=The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226-363: A Documentary History |date=1994 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-96114-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3gGKAgAAQBAJ |language=en}}

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