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__NOTOC__ Walter Ewing Crum (22 July 186520 April 1944〔So stated in W. H. Worrell, (Review of ''Coptic Studies in Honor of Walter Ewing Crum'' ), ''Speculum'' 27.1, January 1952, pp. 88–94, p. 88. However, Gerald Bonner, ("The Crum Papers" ), ''The British Museum Quarterly'' 28.3/4, Autumn 1964, pp. 59–67, p. 59, gives his date of death as 18 May 1941.〕) was a Scottish coptologist. He wrote ''A Coptic Dictionary'', which was completed in 1939 and is considered to be the definitive dictionary of translations from Coptic to English. Crum was the eldest son of Alexander Crum of Thornlebank, 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.〔H. I. Bell, ("Walter Ewing Crum" ), ''The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology'' 30, December 1944, pp. 65–66.〕 Crum spent much of his career cataloguing various Coptic materials, including the manuscript holdings of the John Rylands Library and the British Museum.〔("''Coptic Monuments'' By W. E. Crum (Kiraz Historical Catalogues Archive 6)" ), Gorgias Press, 2005, retrieved 26 June 2014.〕 The Coptic dictionary is his most prominenbt publication, but 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.〔''Coptic Studies in Honor of Walter Ewing Crum'', ''Bulletin of the Byzantine Institute'' 2 (1950), 〕〔W. H. Worrell, (Review of ''Coptic Studies in Honor of Walter Ewing Crum'' ), ''Speculum'' 27.1, January 1952, pp. 88–94.〕 ==Works== * (''Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the British Museum'' ). British Museum (1905) * ''A Coptic Dictionary''. 6 vols. Oxford University/Clarendon Press, 1929–39. Repr. with introduction by James M. Robinson. Ancient Language Resources. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2005. ISBN 9781597523332. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Ewing Crum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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