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Allberry, Charles Robert Cecil Austin

By Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988

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(1913-1943), English Coptologist. He was educated at Christ College, Cambridge, and became the first Lady Wallis Budge scholar. He edited and published the Chester Beatty Manichaean Psalm Book and other Coptic texts. He also published articles in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, of which he became the editor in 1939. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1940 and was killed in action over Germany in April 1943. A list of his specific contributions to Coptic studies can be found in A Coptic Bibliography (Kammerer, 1950, 1969).

Bibliography

Dawson, R. and E. P. Uphill. Who Was Who in Egyptology. London, 1972. Kammerer, W. comp. A Coptic Bibliography. Ann Arbor, 1950; repr. New York, 1969. AZIZ S. ATIYA