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James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist.

James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. Abt has rescued for us the most important American student of the ancient Near East and one of the twentieth century’s leading academics. We are also able to see how brilliant scholars like James Breasted shaped the university system and the education of a democratic electorate, even as people like him were molded by wealthy donors. Abt finally contributes to our understanding of debates over the secularization of the collegiate world. Altogether, a virtuoso performance.

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James Henry Breasted (/ˈbrɛstɪd/; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to full professor, and held the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States.

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In American Egyptologist, Jeffrey Abt weaves together the disparate strands of Breasted’s life, from his small-town origins following the Civil War to his evolution into the father of American Egyptology and the founder of the Oriental Institute in the early years of the University of Chicago. Abt explores the scholarly, philanthropic, diplomatic, and religious contexts of his ideas and projects, providing insight into the origins of America’s most prominent center for Near Eastern archaeology.

In American Egyptologist, Jeffrey Abt weaves together the disparate strands of Breasted's life, from his small-town origins following the Civil War to his evolution into the father of American Egyptology and the founder of th. .

In American Egyptologist, Jeffrey Abt weaves together the disparate strands of Breasted's life, from his small-town origins following the Civil War to his evolution into the father of American Egyptology and the founder of the Oriental Institute in the early years of the University of Chicago. Abt explores the scholarly, philanthropic, diplomatic, and religious contexts of his ideas and projects, providing insight into the origins of America's most prominent center for Near Eastern archaeology

James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) had a career that epitomizes our popular image of the archaeologist. evolution into the father of American Egyptology and the founder of the Oriental Institute in the early years of the University of Chicago. Похожие книги: Civilization and Its Discontents.

Article excerpt Jeffrey Abt's encyclopedic critical biography of James Henry Breasted, the founder of one of the foremost academic institutions in the United States, the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, is a treasure trove o.

Abt, Jeffrey, American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-226-00110-4. Jeffrey Abt's encyclopedic critical biography of James Henry Breasted, the founder of one of the foremost academic institutions in the United States, the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, is a treasure trove of information about the development of the field of ancient Near Eastern epigraphy and archaeology.

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Abt argues that Breasted was quintessentially an "American" Egyptologist; hence the title

Abt argues that Breasted was quintessentially an "American" Egyptologist; hence the title. There are parallels in his suburban upbringing and early Bible-fuelled interest, as well as the sourcing of public-private sponsorship and development of new archaeological techniques, with the English Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie, but it is his role in the political and historical context of the period that makes Breasted's a specifically American story. Abt clearly depicts the tensions building up in the region, in which archaeology and Breasted played a part, notably in the creation of the Palestine Archaeological Museum (later the Rockefeller Museum).