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Published: 12:43 AM, 08 October 2018
Rodolphe Kasser
Rodolphe Kasser philologist and archaeologist, was a Coptic scholar and Swiss national. He was an expert in translation of ancient Coptic language manuscripts. Kasser obtained his higher education in theology in Lausanne and in Paris from 1946-1950. And a diploma from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Ph.D. equivalent) in Paris in 1964.
He conducted pastoral ministry in Switzerland and in France from 1953 to 1959. From 1963 to 1998 he was on the staff at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Geneva, lecturing in Coptic languages and literature. First as professor extraordinary from 1963 to 1976, then as professor from 1976 to 1998.
Since 1965 he has been the head of the archaeological excavations of the Swiss Mission of Coptic Archaeology in the Kellia, Lower Egypt. He died on 8 October 2013.
