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Coptologist
Coptology is the science of Coptic studies, the study of the Coptic language and Coptic literature.What is Coptology? '''' 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 under the title "Colloquium on the Future of Coptic Studies" (11-17 December). This was followed by the establishment of the "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gawdat Gabra
Dr. Gawdat Gabra (born 1947) ( ar, جودت جبرا, Coptic: Ⲅⲁⲩⲇⲁⲧ Ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲁ) is a Coptologist; he finished his bachelor's degree in Egyptian Antiquities – Cairo University 1967 and PhD in Coptic Antiquities University of Münster – Germany 1978. He studied in the Institute of Egyptology of the Charles University in Prague, too. He is the former director of the Coptic Museum in Cairo (1985) and currently a visiting professor in Coptic Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author or the co-author, among other titles, of: *''Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Akhmim and Sohag'' (Gabra and Takla 2008) *''The Churches of Egypt: From the Journey of the Holy Family to the Present Day'' (Gabra, Van Loon, and Sonbol 2007) *''The Treasures of Coptic Art in the Coptic Museum and Churches of Old Cairo'' (Alcock and Gabra 2007) *''Coptic Monasteries: Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture'' (Gabra and Vivian 2002) *''Christian Egypt: Coptic Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolphe Kasser
Rodolphe Kasser (14 January 1927 – 8 October 2013), was a Swiss philologist, archaeologist, and a Coptic scholar. He was an expert in translation of ancient Coptic language manuscripts. Biography Born in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, Kasser obtained his higher education in theology in Lausanne and in Paris from 1946 to 1950 and a diploma from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Ph.D. equivalent) in Paris in 1964. He conducted pastoral ministry in Switzerland and in France from 1953 to 1959. From 1963 to 1998 he was on the staff at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Geneva, lecturing in Coptic languages and literature. First as professor extraordinary from 1963 to 1976, then as professor from 1976 to 1998. After 1965 he was the head of the archaeological excavations of the Swiss Mission of Coptic Archaeology in the Kellia, Lower Egypt. After 1962, Kasser did important research in the field of Coptic philology, including the preparation of a new Coptic dictionary. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting Of A Cross, Kellia
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, Composition (visual arts), composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narrative, narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape art, lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Cannuyer
Christian Cannuyer (born 17 December 1957) is a Belgian historian of religion, professor at the Lille Catholic University, a specialist in Coptic studies and a genealogist. Career Christian Cannuyer teaches ancient Near Eastern religions, Christian church history, and Coptic language at the Theological Faculty of Lille Catholic University. He has published a number of books, including a volume on the Copts – (1990, collection ""), which won the 1991 Eugène Goblet d'Alviella Prize in the History of Religions of the Royal Academy of Belgium; a lavishly illustrated pocket book for the collection " Découvertes Gallimard" – (2000), which is only available in English and French. He has also authored many articles, such as , , et cetera. Cannuyer is editor of the "" collection at Brepols, published in collaboration with the Centre Informatique et Bible of the Maredsous Abbey. He is the president of the since 1994 and member of the Administrative Council of the Francophon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coptology
Coptology is the science of Coptic studies, the study of the Coptic language and Coptic literature.What is Coptology? '''' 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 under the title "Colloquium on the Future of Coptic Studies" (11-17 December). This was followed by the establishment of the "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptology
Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD. A practitioner of the discipline is an "Egyptologist". In Europe, particularly on the Continent, Egyptology is primarily regarded as being a philological discipline, while in North America it is often regarded as a branch of archaeology. History First explorers The earliest explorers of ancient Egypt were the ancient Egyptians themselves. Inspired by a dream he had, Thutmose IV led an excavation of the Great Sphinx of Giza and inscribed a description of the dream on the Dream Stele The Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of the king's reign, 1401 BC, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Coptic Studies
The Institute of Coptic Studies (معهد الدراسات القبطية) was founded in 1954 by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It is based in Cairo. Description The institute is the Egyptian church's main research centre in subjects of Coptology and for shared in many research about different aspect of Coptology since its establishment. The Coptic painters Isaac Fanous and Adel Nassief studied in the institute. The institute is involved in postgraduate studies in Coptic subjects including Coptic music, Coptic art, Coptic iconography and Coptic history. One of the teachers was Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny, the Coptic music expert. From 1955 to 1985 Iris Habib Elmasry continued to lecture in Coptic History at the Institute of Coptic Studies. Foundation The institute was mainly founded by its first president Professor Aziz Suryal Atiya; who was also the Founder of the Middle East center, University of Utah. Other prominent Coptologists and Egyptologists contributed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Christians Of The Nile
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Zaloscer
Prof. Dr. Hilde (Hildegard) Zaloscer (Zaloszer) (15 June 1903 – 20 December 1999) was an art historian, Egyptologist, Coptologist, essayist, novelist and a prominent expert of Coptic history and art. Biography Zaloscer was born in Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina (then Austria-Hungary), the eldest daughter of the affluent Jewish lawyer and state-official Dr. Jacob and his wife Bertha (née Kallach). Since her father was a state official and a known Austrian monarchist, the family had to flee to Vienna when the Austrian monarchy collapsed, at the end of the First World War (1918). Her family settled in Vienna, where she finished her secondary education and studied art history and prehistory at the Vienna University (Ph.D. 1926, her dissertation being "Die frühmittelalterliche Dreistreifenornamentik der Mittelmeerrandgebiete mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Denkmäler am Balkan"). From 1927 to 1936, Zaloscer was the editor of the art magazine ''Belvedere'', and corresponded with Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jozef Vergote
Jozef Antoon Leo Maria Vergote (1910–1992) was a Flemish Egyptologist and Coptologist. He was born on 16 March 1910 in Gent, Belgium. He received his doctorate degree in classical philology and oriental languages in 1932 from the Catholic University of Leuven. He continued his studies in Paris, and in Berlin (1934–1937), where he worked under Kurt Heinrich Sethe, Hermann Grapow, and Rudolph Anthes. He taught Coptic and ancient Egyptian at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1938 until he retired in 1978. He was the editor of ''Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica'' and published widely. Among this most important publications are ''Joseph en Égypte'' (1959), ''Toutankhamon dans les archives hittites'' (1961), and ''Grammaire copte'' (1973–1983). He died in Heverlee Heverlee () is a town in Belgium. It is a borough of the city of Leuven. Heverlee is bordered by Herent, Bertem, Oud Heverlee and several other municipalities that are part of Leuven (including Leuven proper and Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Friedrich August Meinardus
Otto Friedrich August Meinardus was a German Coptologist and pastor (September 25, 1925 – September 18, 2005) who wrote numerous books and articles about Coptic Christianity in Egypt. Early life Meinardus was born in Hamburg in 1925, where he received his secondary schooling. He studied theology and sociology in Hamburg, London, St Louis, Chicago, and at Harvard University, Boston, where he obtained his PhD. Dr. Meinardus was a professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) from 1956 till 1968, and pastor of the Maadi Community Church (MCC) in Cairo, Egypt. Meinardus befriended the Coptic monk Father Antonius, who later on became Pope Shenouda III (1971-2012)], the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Dr. Meinardus became an active member of several research institutions for Coptic studies in Cairo. Meinardus, together with other non-Egyptian faculty at the American University in Cairo, was expelled from Egypt shortly before the Six-Day War of 1967. He served as pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabila Erian
Nabila M. Erian (Arabic: نبيلة عريان, born 1941) is a professor of vocal sciences at the Cairo Conservatoire, Academy of Arts. Her career as a leading soprano opera singer debuted in 1960. She is also an expert on the history of Coptic music. Her latest research revolves around the continuity between the current practiced Coptic music and the Ancient Egyptian tradition. Erian advocates for the construction of a new modern state of the arts opera house at the New Cairo Administrative Capital. Education Erian obtained her PhD entitled ''Coptic Music: An Egyptian Tradition'' in 1986 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Between 1970 and 1973 she obtained several diplomas and a fellowship from the Trinity College London. In 1965, she obtained an M.A. from the Academia di Santa Cecilia, Rome and in 1962, a B.A. in English Literature from the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. Her school leaving certificate in 1958 was obtained from the English Mission College, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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