peyron, amedeo angelo maria (1785-1870), Italian Coptologist and scholar. He studied at the University of Turin and was ordained a priest about 1810. He became a member of Turin Academy (1816) and the Institut de France (1854). His most important work is Lexicon Linguae Copticae (1835).
Peyron, Amedeo Angelo Maria
By Aziz Suryal Atiya
Ask about this article- Topics
- Church Clergy and OrdersGrammar, Phonology, and LexicographyArabic and Greek in Coptic Studies
- Author
- Aziz Suryal Atiya
- Printed pages
- 1952b
- Original
- Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia
Bibliography
Dawson, W. R., and E. P. Uphill. Who Was Who in Egyptology, p. 231. London, 1972. Kammerer, W., comp. A Coptic Bibliography. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1950; repr. New York, 1969. AZIZ ATIYA