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Jaroslav Černý Collection
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Plumley, J. Martin - correspondence

15 letters from Plumley, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Plumley.
Professional as well as personal matters:

  • Coptic studies
  • Plumley's publication, Plumley, J. M., An Introductory Coptic Grammar (Sahidic Dialect) (1948) (OEB 1487)
  • hieratic papyri research in Cambridge, of interest to Černý
  • Plumley's promotion.
  • personal and family matters of both correspondents
  • mutual visits
  • meetings

Poellnitz, F. - correspondence

1 letter from Poellnitz, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary), sent in Černý's absence.
Book exchange and a visit to Oxford by Poellnitz.

Polotsky, Hans Jacob - correspondence

7 letters from Polotsky, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý's secretary to Polotsky, sent in Černý's absence.
Professional as well personal matters:

  • linguistics
  • Coptic etymologies
  • travels of Polotsky and Černý
  • 1968, an oblique reference to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

Posener, Georges - correspondence

110 letters from Posener, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Posener.
2 letters from Posener to Marie Černý.
Research:

  • renewal of the Deir el-Medina ostraca project after the Second World War (WWII)
  • Posener's publication plans, work on Kemit (later published as Posener, G., Catalogue des ostraca hiératiques littéraires de Deir el Médineh ii (Nos 1109 à 1167), (1951) & (1991) (OEB 3065))
  • Posener's research on execration figures, literary ostraca, translations of various texts
  • Černý's research on supposed consanguineous marriages in Egypt
  • book exchange and mutual help in obtaining rare volumes in Britain, Egypt and France
    Personal and family matters
  • some remarks on the situation in Czechoslovakia after the communist coup on 25 February 1948
    After Černý's death, Marie Černý consulted options for Černý's posthumous publications with Posener, especially the Late Egyptian grammar and the involvement of S. Groll in the grammar project.

Préaux, Claire - correspondence

6 letters from Preaux, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý's secretary to Préaux, sent in Černý's absence.
Appreciation of some of Černý's publications and intended publications (e.g. on ancient Egyptian religion); Préaux visited London several times during 1950 and met Černý on at least one occasion; social contact with other scholars resident in Belgium.

Roeder, Ernst Günther - correspondence

13 letters from Roeder, 8 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Roeder.
1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to a pharmaceutical company on behalf of Roeder's pupil Mrs Berger.

  • the situation of German Egyptology after the Second World War (WWII)
  • exchange of publications established despite difficulties
  • Roeder's research on statuary
  • Černý saved food from his own rations in the UK and sent it to Roeder

Rosén, Haiim Baruch - correspondence

1 letter from Rosen.
Černý's contribution to a Festschrift for Polotsky (see [Rosén, H. B.] (ed.), Studies in Egyptology and Linguistics in Honour of H. J. Polotsky (1964) (OEB 159090).

Sander-Hansen, Constantin Emil - correspondence

5 letters from Sander-Hansen, 6 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Sander-Hansen.
Setting up of the International Association of Egyptologists; membership of the organisation; publications.
Černý recommending R. Haardt as Coptologist to Sander-Hansen.

Sargant, Marie Anna (Černá [Černý]) - correspondence

52 letters from Marie Sargant (wife of J. Černý), 55 letters from Černý to Marie Sargant.
Personal correspondence regarding Černý 's move to the United Kingdom in 1946, his health issues and other private and family matters; Černý's travels; the move from London to Oxford in 1951.

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