Harry Reginald Holland Hall, Dictionary of National Biography (1901)
“ In 1857 Renouf married Ludovika, daughter of Brentano la Roche of Frankfort. It is by his egyptological work that Sir Peter Renouf is best known. His temperament was strongly controversial, not to say polemical, yet he rendered lasting service to egyptology, especially in the domain of the language of ancient Egypt, our knowledge of which he greatly helped to place in the position of certainty that it has now attained. [Obituary notice by W. H. Rylands in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, xix. (1897) , pp. 271 ff.; Men of the Time.] ”
