Arthur Ernest Cowley

Sir Arthur Ernest Cowley (1861-1931), orientalist, was born at Forest Hill, Sydenham, on 13 December 1861, and educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Oxford (B.A, 1883; M.A., 1887). He became assistant in the Bodleian Library in 1896, and was appointed sub-librarian in 1899, with responsibility for the oriental department. He was elected a fellow of Magdalen College in 1902, and became Bodley's librarian in 1919. Cowley published work on Hebrew, Aramaic and Hittite, and was Sandars reader in bibliography at Cambridge, 1912-1913. He died at Oxford on 12 October 1931.

From the guide to the Arthur Ernest Cowley: The Papyri of Elephantine, 1912, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

Epithet: Librarian Bodleian Library

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