Format:
Online-Ressource (503 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9789004211162
Series Statement:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History v.213
Content:
This intellectual biography of Johan David Åkerblad (1763-1819) presents a new account of the decipherment of ancient Egyptian. Oriental and classical studies and their entwinement in the turbulent politics of this age of Revolutions are presented from a novel perspective
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Plates, Figures, and Tables; Colour Plates; Introduction; Part One The Making of a Diplomat and Orientalist; Chapter One Family and Education; Chapter Two Constantinople-City of Rumours; Chapter Three Diplomacy and Intrigue; Chapter Four Travel in the East; Chapter Five War in Egypt; Chapter Six Mixing East and West; Chapter Seven "The Sabre in One Hand and the Koran in the Other"; Part Two 1789-1801: Revolution and Turmoil; Chapter Eight Return to Europe; Chapter Nine To Constantinople and Back
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Chapter Ten "A Dangerous Man of Enlightenment"Chapter Eleven The Roman Republic 1798-99; Chapter Twelve Final Year in Sweden; Part Three Reading Egyptian: Deciphering the Rosetta Inscriptions; Chapter Thirteen "I Am Alive Only in Paris"; Chapter Fourteen Åkerblad's Roseta Lettre; Chapter Fifteen Geographic Competition; Chapter Sixteen Egyptology and Orientalism; Part Four The Napoleonic Wars and Restoration in Italy; Chapter Seventeen Book Thefts, Inkblots and French Expropriations; Chapter Eighteen Antiquarian in Rome; Chapter Nineteen Salons and Belle Amiche
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Chapter Twenty Curses and CabalsChapter Twenty-One Oriental Rome; Chapter Twenty-Two Archaeology and Art; Chapter Twenty-Three French Defeat; Chapter Twenty-Four Digging with the Duchess of Devonshire; Chapter Twenty-Five "Despised by Sweden and by Every Swede"; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004236356
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004211162
Additional Edition:
Print version The Life of J. D. Åkerblad : Egyptian Decipherment and Orientalism in Revolutionary Times
Language:
English
Keywords:
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