Burkitt, Francis Crawford, Professor

Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864-1935) was educated at Harrow, before studying divinity at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became university lecturer in palaeography in 1903, and was Norrisian professor of divinity at Cambridge, 1905-35. His publications included 'Text and Versions' in the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903); an edition of the old Syriac Gospels (1904); The Gospel History and its Transmission (1906); Eucharist and Sacrifice (1921); liturgical and Franciscan studies; and works on Mancichaeism and Gnosticism. He was practising member of the Church of England modernist School.

From the guide to the Francis Crawford Burkitt: Papers, c.1859-1936, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

Epithet: Professor

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Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864-1935) was born in London on 3 September 1864. He attended a day school, before entering Harrow in 1878, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1883 (B.A., 1886; M.A., 1890; B.D. and D.D., 1915). Burkitt became university lecturer in palaeography in 1903, and was Norrisian professor of divinity, 1905-1935. He studied oriental languages, and developed a reputation as a Syriac scholar. He produced works on the Old and New Testaments, and on Mancichaeism and Gnosticism. Burkitt died in Cambridge on 11 May 1935.

From the guide to the Francis Crawford Burkitt: Transcript of the Passio Machabeorum, 1884 (copy of 13th century original), (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)