Walter Ewing Crum
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Walter Ewing Crum was a Coptologist
. He wrote A Coptic Dictionary which was published in 1939 and is considered to be the definitive dictionary of translations from Coptic to English.
Crum spent much of his career cataloguing various Coptic materials.
Works
Coptology
Coptology is most commonly defined as the science of Coptic studies, the study of Coptic language and literature.-Origin:The European interest in Coptology may have started as early as the 15th century AD. The term was used in 1976 when the First International Congress of Coptology was held in...
. He wrote A Coptic Dictionary which was published in 1939 and is considered to be the definitive dictionary of translations from Coptic to English.
Crum spent much of his career cataloguing various Coptic materials.
Works
- Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the British Museum. British Museum (1905)