Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Publication Title
Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Volume
52
Pages
5-6
Publisher Name
American Society of Papyrologists
Abstract
Dr. Leslie S.B. MacCoull, papyrologist, Byzantinist, and historian, died at her home in Tempe, Arizona, on August 26 at age 70. MacCoull was born in New London, Connecticut, on August 7, 1945, attended St. Mary’s School in Peekskill, New York, and received her A.B. in Classics from Vassar College in 1965, summa cum laude, as class salutatorian; she had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She received an M.A. in Classics in 1966 from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in Semitics in 1973 with a dissertation on Coptic papyri in the Freer Gallery of Art. She was a gifted linguist, with a command of both ancient and modern languages.
Identifier
1938-6958
Recommended Citation
Keenan, James G.. In Memoriam Leslie S. B. MacCoull. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 52, : 5-6, 2015. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works,
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