Walter Ewing Crum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Walter Ewing Crum

Scottish coptologist

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1865

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 18-May-1944

Profession: independent scholar, egyptologist, coptologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Walter Ewing Crum

  • Walter Ewing Crum (22 July 1865 – 20 April 1944) was a Scottish coptologist, or scholar in Coptic language and literature.
  • In 1939 he completed A Coptic Dictionary, a dictionary of translations from Coptic to English. Crum was the eldest son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank, Glasgow.
  • He attended Eton and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1888, after which he continued his studies of Egyptology in Paris and in Berlin with Adolf Erman, who remained a lifelong friend.Crum spent much of his career cataloguing various Coptic materials, including the manuscript holdings of the John Rylands Library and the British Museum.
  • The Coptic dictionary is his most prominent publication, and he wrote several additional books and many articles.He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin and an honorary D.Litt.
  • from Oxford University.
  • He was a Fellow of the British Academy and was elected a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society shortly before his death.
  • A festschrift, Coptic Studies in Honor of Walter Ewing Crum, was published in 1950 as a special issue of the Bulletin of the Byzantine Institute of America.

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