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Peter le Page Renouf was born in Guernsey, British Islands, United Kingdom on 23 August 1822.
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Sir Peter le Page Renouf was invited by John Henry Newman to teach in Dublin, at Catholic University. These letters in the third of four volumes cover his time there and provide a great deal of material about Newman and the early years of the school, which was later to become University College Dublin. Renouf was later to become the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and translator of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Kevin J. Cathcart is Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Languages at UCD.
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Peter le Page Renouf was born in Guernsey, British Islands, United Kingdom on 23 August 1822.
He was educated at Elizabeth College there, and proceeded to Oxford, which, upon his becoming a Roman Catholic, under the influence of Dr Newman, he quitted without taking a degree.
He had been from 1855 to 1864 professor of ancient history and Oriental languages in the Roman Catholic university which Newman vainly strove to establish in Dublin, and during part of this period edited the Atlantis and the Home and Foreign Review, which latter had to be discontinued on account of the hostility of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. In 1864 he was appointed a government inspector of schools, which position heheld until 1886, when his growing celebrity as an Egyptologist procured him the appointment of Keeper of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum, in succession to Dr Samuel Birch. The most important of his contributions to Egyptology are his Hibbert Lectures on " The Religion of the Egyptians, " delivered in 1879; and the translation of The 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 superannuation rule in 1891.
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Like many other Anglican converts, he proved a thorn in the side of the Ultramontane party in the Roman Church, though he did not, like some of them, return to the communion of the Church of England. He opposed the promulgation of the dogma of Papal Infallibility, and his treatise (1868) upon the condemnation of Pope Honorius for heresy by the council of Constantinople in a. d. 680 was placed upon the index of prohibited books.
He was elected in 1887 president of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, to whose Proceedings he was a constant contributor.
He married in 1857 Ludovica von Brentano, member of a well-known German literary family.