Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich : ideology, scholarship, and individual biographies / edited by Thomas Schneider and Paul Raulwing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider, Thomas, 1964-

Raulwing, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egyptology--History--20th century.

Egyptology.

Egyptology--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Egyptologists--Germany--Biography.

Egyptologists.

Egyptology--Germany--History--20th century.

Egyptology--Political aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

National socialism and scholarship.

Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Germany.

Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Only recently has Egyptology begun to critically examine its history in the first half of the 20th century. This book presents major contributions that analyze the interplay of personal biographies and political history, ideologies and academic scholarship between the First World War and the Third Reich. Peter Raulwing and Thomas Gertzen study the political activism of Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing, professor of Egyptology at the University of Munich and art collector, during and after the First World War. Thomas Schneider's contribution is the first comprehensive treatment of the biographies of German and Austrian Egyptologists in the time of National Socialism and their careers after 1945, with remarks on the relationship between Egyptological scholarship and Nazi ideology. Lindsay Ambridge analyzes the scholarship of James Henry Breasted, the patron of North American Egyptology, in the context of racial ideologies of the early 20th century. A concluding chapter by Peter Raulwing, added after the death of Manfred Mayrhofer, patron of the study of Indo-Aryans in the Ancient Near East, reflects on the 20th century ideological and academic interest in the question of Indo-Aryans in the Ancient Near East. In the introductory chapter, Edmund Meltzer places these studies and their significance in the wider context of Egyptological and historiographical scholarship. \'...this book makes a significant contribution to exploring a dark chapter in Egyptology's history as a discipline and an important step in understanding the effect that period had on the academic community.\' Edward Mushett Cole, University of Birmingham

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Egyptologists, Nazism and Racial “Science” / Edmund S. Meltzer

Imperialism and Racial Geography in James Henry Breasted’s Ancient Times, a History of the Early World / Lindsay J. Ambridge

Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing im Blickpunkt ägyptologischer und zeithistorischer Forschungen: die Jahre 1914 bis 1926 / Peter Raulwing and Thomas L. Gertzen

Ägyptologen im Dritten Reich: Biographische Notizen anhand der sogenannten „Steindorff-Liste“ / Thomas Schneider

Manfred Mayrhofer’s Studies on Indo-Aryan and the Indo-Aryans in the Ancient Near East: A Retrospective and Outlook on Future Research / Peter Raulwing

Index of Names.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-85449-X

90-04-24330-5

OCLC:

821180606

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004243309 DOI