Peter le Page Renouf

Peter le Page Renouf ( born August 23, 1822 the island of Guernsey, † October 14, 1897 in London) was a British Egyptologist.

Renouf was educated at Oxford, later became professor of Oriental languages ​​and ancient history at the Catholic University of Dublin. Since the death of Samuel Birch 1886 Renouf President of the Society of Biblical Archaeology and director was the oriental collections of the British Museum in London. He resigned from the direction of the Museum back in 1892.

Renouf worked in particular to problems of ancient Egyptian philology and the history of religion.

Peter le Page Renouf died on 14 October 1897 in London.

Works

  • Traduction d'un chapitre (72 ) you rituel funéraire the anciens égyptiens. Aschaffenburg (1860 )
  • A prayer from the Egyptian Ritual. Dublin ( 1862)
  • Miscellaneous notes on Egyptian philology. London ( 1865)
  • An elementary grammar of the ancient Egyptian language in the Hieroglyphic type. London ( 1875)
  • Lectures on the origin and growth of religion of ancient Egypt. London ( 1880)
  • The condemnation of Pope Honorius. (1868 )
  • The case of Pope Honorius reconsidered. Göttingen ( 1869)
  • Egyptologist
  • Religious scholars (19th Century )
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born in 1822
  • Died in 1897
  • Man
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