CRUM, WALTER EWING. - Distinguished Coptologist, b. at Capebrig, near Glasgow, on 22 July 1865, d. on 18 May 1944. He was a contributor to all the principal journals of Egyptology.

His capital work, toward which his scientific activity of more than fifty years was directed, is the Coptic Dictionary, which appeared in 6 fascicles from 1929 to 1939. The bibliography of Coptic studies was the object, through his work, of collection and publication from 1892 onward in the Archaeological Report of the Egypt Exploration Fund and then in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. He furthermore published literary texts and above all documentary texts, both alone and in collaboration with English and foreign scholars. Among the general studies, mention should be made of the article Die koptische Kirche, in the Realenc. f. prot. Theol. u. Kirche, 5th ed., XII, cols. 811-15; suppl. XXIII, col. 803 ff.

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BIBL.: His bibliography up to 1940 is contained in Journal of Egypt. Archaeol., 23 (1935), pp. 134-38; obituary written by J. Vergote, in Chronique d'Egypte, 39-40 (1945), pp. 147-51.

Aristide Calderini

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