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Author Schneider, Thomas

Title Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich : Ideology, Scholarship, and Individual Biographies
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents Preface; Egyptologists, Nazism and Racial "Science"; Imperialism and Racial Geography in James Henry Breasted's Ancient Times, a History of the Early World; Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bissing im Blickpunkt ägyptologischer und zeithistorischer Forschungen: die Jahre 1914 bis 1926; Ägyptologen im Dritten Reich: Biographische Notizen anhand der sogenannten Steindorff-Liste"; Manfred Mayrhofer's Studies on Indo-Aryan and the Indo-Aryans in the Ancient Near East: A Retrospective and Outlook on Future Research; Index of Names
Summary Only recently has Egyptology started examining ideology and its implications for our self-understanding and understanding of ancient Egypt, Egyptology, and the past as a whole. This edition presents aspects of ideology, scholarship, and individual biographies from World War I to the ""Third Reich""
Subject Egyptology -- History -- 20th century
Egyptology -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century
Egyptologists -- Germany
Egyptology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Egyptology -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
National socialism and scholarship.
Egyptologists.
Egyptology.
Intellectual life.
National socialism and scholarship.
Politics and government.
SUBJECT Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054610
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054639
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
Subject Germany.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Raulwing, Peter
ISBN 9789004243309
9004243305