Renouf, Peter Le Page

RENOUF, PETER LE PAGE: Roman Catholic Egyptologist; b. on the isle of Guernsey Aug. 23, 1822; d. at London Oct. 15, 1897. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford; entered the Church of Rome, 1842; became professor of ancient history and Eastern languages on the opening of the Roman Catholic University of Ireland, 1855; royal inspector of schools, 1866; and was keeper of oriental antiquities in the British Museum, 1886–92. In 1887 he became president of the Society of Biblical Archeology. He was the author of The Condemnation of Pope Honorius (London, 1868); The Case of Honorius Reconsidered with Reference to Recent Apologies (1869); An Elementary Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Language (1875; 2d ed., 1890); and Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of Ancient Egypt (Hibbert Lectures for 1879; 1880).

Bibliography: For biography of Renouf consult vol. iv., 1st series, of The Life-Work of Peter Le Page Renouf, ed. G. Maspero, W. H. Rylands, and E. Naville, Paris, 1902–1907.