Oscar Lemm

Since 1883 he worked as the curator of the Asiatic Museum, the cradle and centre of Coptology in Russia at that time,[1] of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

[2] In 1883 Lemm, as a Coptologist, gave a speech about Coptic manuscripts housed at the Imperial Library in Petersburg, at the VI International Congress of Orientalists in Leiden.

[3] In 1886 Lemm was invited to teach students elective disciplines on the subject of Egyptology at the University of St. Petersburg.

[4] In 1890 Lemm published the text of the Codex Copticus Tischendorfianus I, an important work in the area of Coptic literature and textual criticism of the New Testament.

In 1900 Lemm published another Coptic manuscript housed in the National Library of France (Cod.