Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White (1884,
Ipswich – 9 September 1924) was a
classicist,
egyptologist,
coptologist and
archaeologist. In 1907 he graduated with a degree in classics from
Wadham College. He is noted for his many translations of ancient Greek works, most notable being those of
Hesiod and the
Homeric hymns. He served in the British Army in the Middle East during WWI as an officer but was invalided out in 1917. He worked on the excavations in Egypt and he returned to England in 1922 to work at as a lecturer at the
University of Leeds but took his own life in 1924.[1][2] He shot himself in a taxi after the preceding suicide of a romantic interest.[3]
Evelyn-White, H. G. (1910). The Myth of the Nostoi. The Classical Review, 24(7), 201–205.
Evelyn-White, H. G. (1915). Hesiodea. The Classical Quarterly, 9(2), 72–76.
Crum, W. E., & Evelyn-White, H. G. (1926). The monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes/Pt. 2 Coptic ostraca and papyri/ed. with translations and commentaries by WE Crum. The monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes.
Evelyn White, H. G. (1920). The Egyptian Expedition 1916-1919: IV. The Monasteries of the Wadi Natrun. Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 34–39.