Arthur Surridge Hunt


Arthur Surridge Hunt FBA 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 language|Greek] and Demotic.
In 1913, he became Professor of Papyrology at Oxford, succeeding to his lifelong friend and colleague Grenfell, whose professorship lapsed due to the latter’s breakdowns and depression.
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.

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