James Henry Breasted
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American archaeologist, Egyptologist and historian (1865–1935)
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- Born
- 1865
- Died
- 1935
- Works
- 135
Top works
- Egyptian grammar, with table of signs, bibliography, exercises for reading and glossary
- Prawattisāt lōk samai bōrān
- Historical tradition and oriental research
- A laboratory for the investigation of early man
- המזרח הקדמון
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Quotes
- “The roots of modern civilization are planted deeply in the highly elaborate life of those nations which rose into power over six thousand years ago, in the basin of the eastern Mediterranean, and the adjacent regions on the east of it.”
- “[T]he past was supreme; the priest who cherished it lived in a realm of shadows, and for the contemporary world he had no vital meaning. Likewise in Babylon the same retrospective spirit was now the dominant characteristic of the reviving empire of Nebuchadrezzar. The world was already growing old, and everywhere men were fondly dwelling on her faraway youth.”
- “The limits of the dominion of the Egyptian gods had been fixed as the outer fringes of the Nile valley long before the outside world was familiar to the Nile-dwellers; and merely commercial intercourse with a larger world had not been able to shake the tradition. Many a merchant had seen a stone fall in distant Babylon and in Thebes alike, but it had not occurred to him, or to any man in that far-off age, that the same natural force reigned in these widely separated countries.”
- “It was universalism expressed in terms of imperial power which first caught the imagination of the thinking men of the Empire, and disclosed to them the universal sweep of the Sun-god’s dominion as a physical fact. Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.”
- “It lies like an army facing south, with one wing stretching along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the other reaching out to the Persian Gulf, while the center has its back against the northern mountains. The end of the western wing is Palestine; Assyria makes up a large part of the center; while the end of the eastern wing is Babylonia. [...] This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the Fertile Crescent.”
- “Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in discussing injuries affecting the brain, we note the surgeon's effort to delimit his terms as he selects for specialization a series of common and current words to designate three degrees of injury to the skull indicated in modern surgery by the terms "fracture", "compound fracture," and "compound comminuted fracture," all of which the ancient commentator carefully explains.”
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Key facts
- Born
- James Henry Breasted , ( 1865-08-27 ) August 27, 1865, Rockford, Illinois , U.S.
- Died
- December 2, 1935 (1935-12-02) (aged 70), New York City , U.S.
- Education
- North Central College ( BA ) Chicago Theological Seminary Yale University ( MA ) University of Berlin ( PhD )
- Known for
- Popularizing the term " Fertile Crescent ", Founder of the Oriental Institute
- Fields
- Archaeology Egyptology
- Institutions
- University of Chicago
- Thesis
- De hymnis in Solem sub rege Amenophide IV conceptis (1894)
- Doctoral advisor
- Adolf Erman
- Doctoral students
- Robert John Braidwood
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Encyclopedic overview
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 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology – 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.
Breasted was a committed field researcher in Egypt and the Levant and had a productive interest in recording and interpreting ancient writings, especially from sources and structures that he feared may be lost forever. In 1919, he founded the Oriental Institute (later known as, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) at the University of Chicago, a center for interdisciplinary study of ancient civilizations. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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