page_title: Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo
hierarchical_section_title: Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo
caption_attribution_description: English: First page of Saggio filologico per l'apprendimento della lingua e scrittura egiziana... by the Czech-Italian Egyptologist Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo. Italiano: Prima pagina del Saggio filologico per l'apprendimento della lingua e scrittura egiziana... dell'egittologo ceco naturalizzato italiano Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo.
context_page_description: Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo, née Jan Kmínek-Szedlo was a Czech–Italian Egyptologist.
  He is usually remembered as the first Egyptologist from what nowadays is the Czech Republic but since he spent most of his life and fulfilled his whole career in Italy, he is usually not seen as the founder of Czech Egyptology, a figure rather identified in the later František Lexa.
context_section_description: Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo, née Jan Kmínek-Szedlo (April 22, 1828 – November 24, 1896) was a Czech–Italian Egyptologist.
  
  He is usually remembered as the first Egyptologist from what nowadays is the Czech Republic but since he spent most of his life and fulfilled his whole career in Italy, he is usually not seen as the founder of Czech Egyptology, a figure rather identified in the later František Lexa.
caption: First page of an 1877 work by Kminek-Szedlo
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