See also:SIR See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
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
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, though he did not, like some of them, return to the communion of the Church of See also:England
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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
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68o was placed upon the See also:index of prohibited books
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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