Henry George Fischer
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Henry George Fischer | |
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| Born | May 10, 1923 |
| Died | January 11, 2006 (aged 82) |
| Spouse | Eleanor Teel Fischer |
Henry George Fischer (May 10, 1923 – January 11, 2006) was an American
Egyptologist
and poet.
Biography
Born on May 10, 1923, in
Ph.D. from the same university. Shortly after he joined an expedition to Egypt and later he became an assistant professor of Egyptology at Yale University.[1]
In 1958 he started working as an assistant curator at the New York
patron Lila Acheson Wallace, earning a special chair as the curator of Egyptology. When he retired in 1992, he became a curator emeritus.[1]
Fischer's fields of interest were the
hieroglyphic writing system (his influential work The Orientation of Hieroglyphs). After his retirement he focused on his other interests, such as writing poetry and playing the Renaissance sackbut.[1]
Henry George Fischer died on January 11, 2006, in Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, aged 82.[1]
Significant works
- 1968 - Ancient Egyptian representations of turtles. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1968 - Dendera in the Third Millennium B.C. Down to the Theban Domination of Upper Egypt. Locust Valley, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1976 - Ancient Egyptian epigraphy and palaeography. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1976 - Egyptian Studies I: Varia I. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1977 - Egyptian Studies II: The Orientation of Hieroglyphs. Part I. Reversals The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1984 - The Renaissance sackbut and its use today. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1985 - Egyptian titles of the Middle Kingdom. A supplement to Wm. Ward's index. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1986 - L'écriture et l'art de l'Egypte ancienne. Quatre leçons sur la paléographie et l'épigraphie ancienne., Presses universitaires de France, Paris
- 1989 - Egyptian women of the Old Kingdom and of the Heracleopolitan period. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1993 - Timely Rhymes (poetry collection)
- 1993 – More Timely Rhymes (poetry collection)
- 1996 - The tomb of I̕p at El Ṣaff. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1996 - Varia nova. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 1998 - Night and Light and the Half-Light (poetry collection)
- 1999 - Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy, A Beginner´s Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
- 2002 - Small Ponderings (poetry collection)
References
- ^ New York Times. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
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