Quote of the day
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Frederic G. Kenyon
Born: January 15, 1863
Died: August 23, 1952 (aged 89)
Bio: Sir Frederic George Kenyon was a British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. He occupied from 1889 to 1931 a series of posts at the British Museum.
Known for:
- The Palaeography Of Greek Papyri (1889)
- Books and Readers in Ancient Greece and Rome (1932)
- The Bible and Modern Scholarship (1948)
- Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts (1896)