Frank J. Yurco

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Frank J. Yurco (July 31, 1944 – February 6, 2004), born to Czechoslovakian immigrants in New York, was an Egyptologist from Chicago. He graduated from New York University and earned masters in Chicago. He came to the United States of America in 1967, and served in the U.S army during the Vietnam war in 1968. Yurco held a position at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library until 2002, when he was diagnosed with ALS, where he tragically died from the ailment.^[1][2][3]