Hugh Evelyn-White (1884,

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- 1924) was a

classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

egyptologist 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 religiou ...

, coptologist and archaeologist. In 1907 he graduated with a degree in classics from

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. He is noted for his many translations of ancient Greek works, most notable being those of

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and the

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. He served in the British Army in the Middle East during WWI as an officer but was invalided out in 1917. He worked on the excavations in Egypt and he returned to England in 1922 to work at as a lecturer at the

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but took his own life in 1924.https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/collection/1482 University of Leeds Library: Special Collections: Hugh Evelyn-White (1884-1924) Crum, W. E. (as W. E. C.) (1924). Hugh Evelyn-White. ''

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'', 10(3/4), 331-332. Retrieved July 3, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3853935 He was the son of the antiquarian, Charles Harold Evelyn-White, and his wife, Charlotte Reid.

Selected publications

Evelyn-White, H. G. (Ed.). (1914). Hesiod, the Homeric hymns, and Homerica (No. 57). Harvard University Press
* Evelyn-White, H. G. (1910). The Myth of the Nostoi. The Classical Review, 24(7), 201-205. * Evelyn-White, H. G. (1915). Hesiodea. The Classical Quarterly, 9(2), 72-76. * Crum, W. E., & Evelyn-White, H. G. (1926). The monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes/Pt. 2 Coptic ostraca and papyri/ed. with translations and commentaries by WE Crum. The monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes. * Evelyn White, H. G. (1920). The Egyptian Expedition 1916-1919: IV. The Monasteries of the Wadi Natrun. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 34-39.

Other sources

* Atiya, Aziz Suryal, Lola Atiya, and S. Michael Saad. 2011. ''Claremont Coptic encyclopedia'': Evelyn-White, Hugh Gerard (1874-1924) . Claremont, Calif: Claremont Colleges Digital Library. https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/827/ * Dawson, Warren Royal. 1972. "Who was who in Egyptology", London: Egypt Exploration Society. * Kammerer, Winifred, Elinor M. Husselman, and Louise Adele Shier. 1969. ''A coptic bibliography''. New York: Kraus.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Evelyn-White, Hugh 1884 births 1924 deaths British classical scholars 20th-century philologists English archaeologists English Egyptologists Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford 20th-century archaeologists Tutankhamun