Édouard Naville
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Édouard Naville | |
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Born | Henri Édouard Naville 14 June 1844 Geneva, Switzerland |
Died | 17 October 1926 Malagny, Genthod, Switzerland | (aged 82)
Nationality | Swiss |
Occupation(s) | Egyptologist, biblical scholar |
Henri Édouard Naville (14 June 1844 – 17 October 1926) was a
Born in Geneva, he studied at the University of Geneva, King's College, London, and the Universities of Bonn, Paris, and Berlin. He was a student of Karl Richard Lepsius and later his literary executor.
He first visited
In the 1890s he excavated at the
In 1873, he married
Naville was the recipient of numerous international awards and honors and was the author of innumerable publications, both on his excavations and his textual studies. He died at Malagny (near Geneva) in 1926.
Naville was an archaeologist of the old fashioned school that concerned itself with large scale clearance of sites and little regard for the detailed evidence possibly to be found in the course of excavation. In his lifetime he was criticized by
He received an honorary doctorate (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901.[2]
Publications
- The Law of Moses
- The Store-city of Pithom and the Route of the Exodus
- The Higher Criticism in Relation to the Pentateuch
- The Text of the Old Testament
- Archaeology of the Old Testament: Was the Old Testament Written in Hebrew?
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Notes
- ^ "Archives de Marguerite Naville" (in French). Société d'Égyptologie, Genève. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ "Glasgow University Jubilee". The Times. No. 36481. London. 14 June 1901. p. 10. Retrieved 5 January 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
References
- Warren R. Dawson and Eric P. Uphill, Who Was Who in Egyptology, second revised edition, London, 1972.
External links
- Works by Édouard Naville on Internet Archive.
- Naville, Edouard, 'The temple of Deir el Bahari', London, (1895–1908), all six volumes, at Heidelberger historische Bestände