CRUM, WALTER EWING. - Eminent Coptologist, b. 22 July 1865, d. 18 May 1944. He was a contributor to all the principal periodicals on Egyptology.
His chief work, to which he devoted his scientific activity for more than fifty years, is the *Coptic Dictionary*, which appeared in 6 fascicles from 1929 to 1939. The bibliography of Coptic studies was the object of his collection and publication from 1892 onwards in the *Archaeological Report of the Egypt Exploration Fund* and later in the *Journal of Egyptian Archaeology*. He also published literary texts and especially documentary texts, both independently and in collaboration with English and foreign scholars. Among his comprehensive studies, the article *Die koptische Kirche* in *Bendec. f. prot. Theol.* in *Kirche*, 3rd ed., XII, cols. 81-115; suppl. XXIII, col. 803 sq. deserves mention.