Claudius Labib
(1868–1918)
Biography
Claudius Labib (1868–1918) was a pioneering Coptologist and liturgist. He was the first professor of the Coptic language at the Clerical College and published a short-lived but important periodical, Heliopolis, for the promotion of Coptic as a living and spoken language.[1]Munir Basta, “Iqladiyus Labib,” in The Coptic Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, ed. Aziz S. Atiya (New York: Macmillan, 1991). He also published works on Coptic liturgical texts.
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Bibliography
A. Works
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B. Further Reading
Basta, Munir. “Iqladiyus Labib.” In The Coptic Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, edited by Aziz S. Atiya. New York: Macmillan, 1991.
MacCoull, Leslie S. B. “Egyptian Coptic Language Pamphlets: The Challenge of a Typology of Errors.”Coptic Church Review 6, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 17–21.
Reid, Donald. Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I. Berekeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003 (pages 258–285).
For a helpful bibliography of modern scholarship on Claudius Labib, see Claudius Labib: A Short Biography and Bibliography.
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| ↑1 | Munir Basta, “Iqladiyus Labib,” in The Coptic Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, ed. Aziz S. Atiya (New York: Macmillan, 1991). |
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