Gerald Michael Browne (194330 August 2004) was

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of classics at the

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. He was a founding editor, in 1988, of the '' Journal of Coptic Studies''. The principal biographical study of his life is an article by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei.Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, 'Scholarship as Biography: An Allegorical Reading of the Philological Work of G.M. Browne', in
Disturbing Times Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures
', ed. by Catherine E. Karkov, Anna Kłosowska, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei (Earth, Milky Way: punctum, 2020), pp. 29-72 , .

Selected publications

* ''Documentary papyri from the Michigan collection''. A.M. Hakkert, Toronto, 1970. ( American Studies in Papyrology Vol. 6) * ''The Papyri of the Sortes Astrampsychi''. A. Hain, Meisenheim am Glan, 1974. * ''Michigan Coptic texts''. Papyrologica Castroctaviana, Barcelona, 1979. * ''Introduction to Old Nubian''. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1989. * ''Literary texts in Old Nubian''. Verein der Förderer der Sudanforschung, Wien-Mödling, 1989. * ''Old Nubian texts from Qaṣr Ibrīm. 2''. Egypt Exploration Society, London, 1989. * ''The old Nubian miracle of Saint Menas''. Mödling, Wien, 1994. * ''Old Nubian grammar''. Lincom Europa, Muenchen, 2002.

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* 1943 births 2004 deaths University of Illinois faculty American classical scholars American papyrologists Philologists {{classical-scholar-stub