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Gerald Michael Browne

1943 – 2004

American papyrologist

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Lived 1943 – 2004 (aged 60). Gerald Michael Browne was an American classical philologist, papyrologist and university teacher.

Gerald Michael Browne (194330 August 2004) was an American classical scholar who was professor emeritus of classics at the University of Illinois. 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.

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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University of Michigan
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Harvard University
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American papyrologist

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Gerald Michael Browne was born on 13 December 1943 in Detroit.

When did Gerald Michael Browne die?

Gerald Michael Browne died on 24 August 2004 in Urbana.

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Gerald Michael Browne was a classical philologist, papyrologist and university teacher.

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Gerald Michael Browne was American.

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· Wikipedia: Gerald Michael Browne

· Wikidata: Q21524750

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