Gerald Michael Browne (1943 – 30 August 2004) was professor emeritus of classics at the University of Illinois. He was a founding editor, in 1988, of the Journal of Coptic Studies.^[1] The principal biographical study of his life is an article by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei.^[2]

Selected publications

• Documentary papyri from the Michigan collection. A.M. Hakkert, Toronto, 1970. (American Studies in Papyrology Vol. 6)
• The Papyri of the Sortes Astrampsychi. A. Hain, Meisenheim am Glan, 1974.
• Michigan Coptic texts. Papyrologica Castroctaviana, Barcelona, 1979.
• Introduction to Old Nubian. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1989.
• Literary texts in Old Nubian. Verein der Förderer der Sudanforschung, Wien-Mödling, 1989.
• Old Nubian texts from Qaṣr Ibrīm. 2. Egypt Exploration Society, London, 1989.
• The old Nubian miracle of Saint Menas. Mödling, Wien, 1994.
• Old Nubian grammar. Lincom Europa, Muenchen, 2002.