Francis Crawford Burkitt

BURKITT, Francis Crawford. b. London, 3 September 1864; d. Cambridge, 11 May 1935. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Mathematics and Theology (BA 1888). He held no official post at Cambridge until 1903, when he became Lecturer in Palaeography, so that he was able to devote his time to the study of Hebrew, Syriac, and other languages. He published a two-volume edition of the old Syriac Gospels, Evangelion da-Mepharreshe (Cambridge, 1904), and was elected Norrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1905. He wrote The Gospel History and its Transmission (Edinburgh, 1906) and Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (London: Oxford University Press, for the...