Henriette Groenewegen-Frankfort

Henriette Antonia "Jettie" Groenewegen-Frankfort (1896–1982) was a Dutch

Early life and education

Groenewegen's father was a minister and professor of philosophy of religion and ethics at the University of Amsterdam. Henriette Groenewegen attended the University of Amsterdam where she studied Greek and Chinese philosophy. There, she met her future husband Henri "Hans" Frankfort, whose studies involved history, ethnology and Chinese religion.^[1][2]

Groenewegen and Frankfort became engaged in 1920. As part of his studies, Frankfort studied under Flinders Petrie. Petrie brought Frankfort to Egypt to work at Qau el-Kebir. When Frankfort returned from Egypt, he and Groenwegen married. The couple spent a year in Athens at the British School at Athens from 1924 to 1925, while Frankfort was working on his PhD dissertation.

Archaeological career

From 1925 to 1938, the newly married couple worked together on archaeological expeditions in the

• Groenewegen-Frankfort, Henrietta A. (1987). Arrest and Movement: An Essay on Space and Time in the Representational Art of the Ancient Near East.
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• Groenewegen-Frankfort, Henrietta A.; Ashmole, Bernard (1972). Art of the Ancient World.
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