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- 1991 (Creazione)
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Nota biografica
American Egyptologist and orientalist. Born, Rockford, Ill. 1865. Died, New York 1935. Educated at North-Western College, Naperville, Ill., then Chicago College of Pharmacy, 1882-6. Started a career in pharmacy before going on to study Hebrew at the Congressional Institute. Then Yale University, 1890-1. AM degree, 1892. Went to Berlin to study Egyptology with Erman, 1894. Assistant in Egyptology and assistant director of Haskell Oriental Museum, University of Chicago, 1895-1901. Director of Haskell, 1901. Instructor in Egyptology and Semitic Languages, 1896. Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History, 1905. Whilst working on the Berlin dictionary in 1990-4, he was also able to record many texts from monuments in various German museums which formed the basis of his publication Ancient Records. Director, University of Chicago Egyptian Expedition, 1905-7. Was awarded many honours during his career. Founded the Oriental Institute at Chicago which was financially backed by J. D. Rockefeller, Jnr.
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Photocopies supplied by Mr John Larsen in August 1991.
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- Annotated photocopies made from a folder marked 'Friends and Colleagues' from among the papers of J. H. Breasted, in Chicago, Oriental Institute.
- Includes photographs showing:
- 'Carter appears not young'
- Transportation of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb to the railway.
- 'Probably John Hartmen (Austrian photographer) working in Cairo Museum'.
- J. H. Breasted and A. Gardiner working in the Cairo Museum, etc.
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Property of the Griffith Institute. Consultation only.
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Copyright Oriental Institute, Chicago.