Arthur Surridge Hunt

For other people named Arthur Hunt, see Arthur Hunt (disambiguation).

Arthur Surridge Hunt FBA
Born	(1871-03-01)1 March 1871 Romford, Essex, England
Died	18 June 1934(1934-06-18) (aged 63) Oxford, England
Academic work
Discipline	papyrology
Institutions	University of Oxford

Arthur Surridge Hunt FBA (1 March 1871 – 18 June 1934) was an English papyrologist.

Life

Hunt was born in Romford, Essex, England. Over the course of many years, Hunt, along with Bernard Grenfell, recovered many papyri from excavation sites in Egypt, including the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.

He worked with Campbell Cowan Edgar on a translation of the Zenon Papyri from the original Greek and Demotic.

In 1913, he became Professor of Papyrology at Oxford, succeeding his lifelong friend and colleague Grenfell, whose professorship lapsed due to the latter’s breakdowns and depression. In the First World War he was commissioned as an officer in 4th Battalion, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, on 1 May 1915.

In January 1918, he married Lucy Ellen, daughter of Surgeon-Major-General Sir A. F. Bradshaw, but during the next few months their only child died.

Awards

• Appointed Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
• 1894 – Elected to the Craven Fellowship.

Publications

• Grenfell, Bernard Pyne and Hunt, Arthur Surridge, Sayings of Our Lord from an early Greek Papyrus (Egypt Exploration Fund; 1897).
• Grenfell, Bernard Pyne, Hunt, Arthur Surridge, and Hogarth, David George, Fayûm Towns and Their Papyri (London 1900).
• Grenfell, Bernard Pyne and Hunt, Arthur Surridge, eds., Hellenica Oxyrhynchia cum Theopompi et Cratippi Fragmentis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909).
• Hunt, Arthur Surridge, "Papyri and Papyrology." The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1, no. 2 (1914): 81–92.

See also

• Oxyrhynchus 2011

Sources

• Author and Book Info.com
• Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum
• Catalogus Philologorum Classicorum
• Arthur Surridge Hunt
• Guérud, O. (1939). "Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870-1938)". Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.
• Milne, J. G. (1934). "Arthur Surridge Hunt". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 20 (3/4): 204–205. doi:10.1177/030751333402000151. JSTOR 3854743.
• Bell, H.; Simpson, R. (23 September 2004). "Hunt, Arthur Surridge (1871–1934), papyrologist.". In Simpson, R. S. (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34055. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 11 November 2024. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

Bibliography

• The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection. {Reprinted by} Cornell University Library Digital Collections

External links

• Works by or about Arthur Surridge Hunt at the Internet Archive
• "List of collections".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) with items provided by Arthur Hunt