Karl Heinz Kuhn, emeritus Professor of Coptic in the University of Durham, was the leading Coptic scholar of his day in the United Kingdom. His most notable publications were editions, with accompanying volumes of English translations, of Coptic texts written by or piously attributed to major figures in the early development of the Coptic Church and of Coptic monasticism. These were published in the authoritative international series Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, and for thirty years from 1970 he was himself the editor of its Coptic sub-series.
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