Eric Otto Winstedt (1880,
Oxford – January 29, 1955), or more commonly E. O. Winstedt, was a
British Latinist and
gypsiologist. He translated Latin works to English, e. g.
Marcus Tullius Cicero's letters to
Atticus and compiled a 'register of Gypsy names' in the 1920s.
Early in his career he published several articles on
Coptic
Coptic may refer to:
Afro-Asia
* Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
* Coptic alphabet ...
texts as well as a book with text editions. His brother was Sir
Richard Olaf Winstedt.
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1880 births
1955 deaths
British Latinists
20th-century British historians
20th-century British translators
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