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Jaroslav Černý Collection
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Anthes, Rudolf - correspondence

16 letters from Anthes and 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Anthes.
Majority of the content is personal; Anthes communicated his wartime circumstances and subsequent career development, as well as the German Egyptology situation after the war (WWII). Černý provided professional information, as well as material assistance in the form of food rations sent to Anthes in the 1940s.
Anthes and Černý exchanged information on ostraca discoveries, Černý updating Anthes on new finds at Deir el-Medîna during the 1940s and 1950s. Anthes recipricated by supplying information regarding finds during excavations at Mît Rahîna.

Bendow - correspondence

4 letters from Bendow, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Bendow.
The Norwegian scholar was interested in varied aspects of Egyptian culture and consulted with Černý, some of Bendow's ideas were unconventional.

Bruyère, Bernard - correspondence

9 letters from Bruyère.
Correspondence regarding Deir el-Medîna, Černý's schedule at University College London versus fieldwork, ostraca, publication plans for ostraca, cooperation with Georges Posener; personal matters.

Buck, Adriaan de - correspondence

2 letters from de Buck, A. de Buck obituary notice, 1 carbon copy of a condolence letter from Černý to Mrs de Buck.
Correspondence concerned with professional as well as personal matters, publications.

Caminos, Ricardo A. - correspondence

4 letters from Caminos.
Gebel es-Silsila and Caminos' work on the site; records of Nile levels; also fieldwork, life at the excavations and various academic appointments.
References to Černý's travel to the USA.

Capart, Jean - correspondence

1 letter from Capart.
Letter confirming that Eva Jelínková (Eve Reymond) was accepted as a visitor in the library of Fondation Reine Elisabeth in Brussels. Capart also congratulates Černý on his new position in London.

Cenival, Jean-Louis H. de - correspondence

2 letters from Cenival, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to de Cenival, and 1 reference letter concerning the publication of Abusir papyri.
The publication of Abusir papyri, and Černý recommending their publication.

Clère, Jacques Jean - correspondence

12 letters from Clère.
Excavations; travel plans of both Egyptologists; personal matters; the situation in Czechoslovakia after February 1948 as observed by Clère during the 1949 congress.

Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles - correspondence

17 letters from Driver, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Driver, 1 cover page of a form from Černý's office to Driver.
Philology, in particular, an analysis of word stems; frequent questions from Driver concerning Egyptian-Hebrew linguistic relations; also administrative matters relating to the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

Firchow, Otto - correspondence

2 letters from Firchow, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Firchow.
Černý's participation in Festschrift Grapow, see Firchow, O. (ed.), Ägyptologische Studien (1955) (OEB 158830).

Janda, Bohumil - correspondence

2 letters from Janda, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Janda.
Publication plan for a book on Egyptian art by Černý, to be published in Prague (ultimately abandoned).

Kaplony, Peter - correspondence

14 letters from Kaplony, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Kaplony.

  • Kaplony's studies of Late Egyptian
  • the presence of Late Egyptian elements in 18th Dynasty texts
  • texts dated to the reign of Kamose
  • Coptic etymologies, development of verbal forms
  • consultations with L. Habachi
  • meeting Černý at G. Nagel's in 1956

Kraeling, Carl H. - correspondence

5 letters from Kraeling, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Kraeling.
Černý 's visit to Chicago in early 1955, where he gave a talk on Egyptian oracles; problems faced by Western institutions in Egypt after the Suez crisis.

Krause, Martin - correspondence

11 letters from Krause, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Krause.
Photographs of hieratic ostraca sent to Černý from Berlin (one letter originally had an enclosure of over 20 photographs), books from the von Bissing bequest (F. von Bissing died in 1956), personal matters.

Lambert, A. C. - correspondence

1 letter from Lambert.
A query from A. C. Lambert concerning an esoteric book Secret Place of the Lion by G. H. Williamson, which Černý assessed critically as shown in a remark added to the letter.

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