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SIR PETER LE PAGE RENOUF (1822-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 102 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:PETER LE See also:PAGE See also:RENOUF (1822-1897)  , Egyptologist, was See also:born in See also:Guernsey, on the 23rd of See also:August 1822 . He was educated at See also:Elizabeth See also:College there, and proceeded to See also:Oxford, which, upon his becoming a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, under the See also:influence of Dr See also:Newman, he quitted without taking a degree . Like many other See also:Anglican converts, he proved a See also:thorn in the See also:side of the Ultramontane party in the Roman See also:Church, though he did not, like some of them, return to the communion of the Church of See also:England . He opposed the promulgation of the See also:dogma of Papal See also:Infallibility, and his See also:treatise (1868) upon the condemnation of See also:Pope See also:Honorius for See also:heresy by the See also:council of See also:Constantinople in A.D . 68o was placed upon the See also:index of prohibited books . He had been from 1855 to 1864 See also:professor of See also:ancient See also:history and See also:Oriental See also:languages in the Roman Catholic university which Newman vainly strove to establish in See also:Dublin, and during See also:part of this See also:period edited the See also:Atlantis and the See also:Home and See also:Foreign See also:Review, which latter had to be discontinued on See also:account of the hostility of the Roman Catholic See also:hierarchy . In 1864 he was appointed a See also:government inspector of See also:schools, which position he held until 1886, when his growing celebrity as an Egyptologist procured him the See also:appointment of Keeper of Oriental Antiquities in the See also:British Museum, in See also:succession to Dr See also:Samuel See also:Birch . He was also elected in 1887 See also:president of the Society of Biblical See also:Archaeology, to whose Proceedings he was a See also:constant contributor . The most important of his contributions to Egyptology are his Hibbert Lectures on " The See also:Religion of the Egyptians," delivered in 1879; and the See also:translation of The See also:Book of the Dead, with an ample commentary, published in the Transactions of the society over which he presided . He retired from the Museum under the See also:superannuation See also:rule in 1891, and died in See also:London on the 14th of See also:October 1897 . He had been knighted the See also:year before his See also:death . He married in 1857 Ludovica von See also:Brentano, member of a well-known See also:German See also:literary See also:family .

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