Sergio Donadoni
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| Born | Sergio Donadoni 13 October 1914 |
| Died | 31 October 2015 (aged 101) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Egyptologist |
| Spouse | Anna Maria Roveri |
Fabrizio Sergio Donadoni OMRI (13 October 1914 – 31 October 2015)[1] was an Italian archaeologist who worked in the disciple of Egyptology.
Life
Born in 1914 in
archaeologist Evaristo Breccia.[2]: 15–6 In 1938 he was a student of Hermann Junker at Cairo. During the war, from 1938 to 1940, he joined the excavation of the Middle Kingdom temple of Medinet Madi led by Achille Vogliano. At the end of the 1940s he returned to Italy and started teaching at the University of Pisa,[2]: 17 and later at the Sapienza University of Rome.[2]
: 19 In the late 1950s Donadoni was invited to join the team of archaeologists that operated the relocation of the
Aswan High Dam and the subsequent formation of Lake Nasser. Among his students at this time, notable were Edda Bresciani, and Anna Maria Roveri who later became his wife.[2]
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His later, several excavations and studies are mostly concentrated in Nubia; among the others, since 1973 he excavated at : 19–20 A remarkable work by Sergio Donadoni is The Egyptians, first published in English in 1997. Later in his life, Donadoni became Professor emeritus at the Sapienza University; he also was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. In 2000 he was awarded with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.[3] He died on 31 October 2015 in Rome.[1]
See also
Sources
- ^ a b Sabadin, Vittorio (November 1, 2015). "Addio a Sergio Donadoni, l'archeologo che salvò Abu Simbel". La Stampa.it (in Italian). Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Hölbl, Günther (2006). "profilo di Sergio Donadoni: l'Egittologo". In Minà, Patrizia (ed.). Imagine et iura personarum. L'uomo nell'Egitto antico, per i novanta anni di Sergio Donadoni. Atti del IX Convegno Internazionale di Egittologia e Papirologia. Palermo, 10-13 novembre 2004 (in Italian). Palermo. pp. 15–24.
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