C. G. Woide and other Coptic scholars

Charles Godfrey Woide (1725-90) was an oriental scholar. The Clarendon Press, at Oxford, published his Egyptian lexicon (1775) and grammar (1778). See the Dictionary of National Biography for details.

The collection also includes transcripts by Coptic scholars Paul Ernest Jablonski (1693-1757) and Christian Scholtz (1697-1777), see the Neue Deutsche Biographie ; Maturin Veyssire La Croze (1661-1739), see the Dictionnaire de Biographie Franaise ; and Andreas Birch (1758-1829), see the Dansk Biografisk Leksikon .

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