The forgotten scholar
Subtitle: Georg Zoëga (1755-1809) : at the dawn of Egyptology and Coptic studies
By: edited by Karen Ascani, Paola Buzi and Daniela Picchi
Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East -- volume 74
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9789004290235; 9789004290839
Subjects: Archives; Archaeologists; Biography; Egyptologists; Antiquities; Historiography; Study and teaching; Ancient Numismatics; Coptic Church
Description: "Renowned for his work within the fields of Numismatics, Archaeology, Egyptology and Coptic studies, Georg Zoëga was a figure of outstanding importance both in Rome and in Europe, at the end of the eighteenth century. Although highly valued by his contemporaries, Zoëga's scientific legacy fell almost entirely into oblivion with the end of the Enlightenment. The Forgotten Scholar : Georg Zoëga (1755-1819) : At the Dawn of Egyptology and Coptic Studies represents an exceptional occasion to rediscover the largely unknown scientific legacy of this Danish scholar consisting of hundreds of letters, drawings, sketches, notes, and other documents, mainly preserved in the Royal Library and in the Thorvaldsen Museum of Copenhagen"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Karen Ascani, Paola Buzi, Daniela Picchi; title: [I] Zoega and His Time; title: Georg Koes and Zoega's Manuscripts Preserved in the Royal  Library in Copenhagen / Ivan Boserup; title: Relics of a Friendship : Objects from Georg Zoega's Estate in Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen / Kristine Boggild Johannsen; title: Georg Zoega in lettere / Karen Ascani; title: Georg Zoega und Christian Gottlob Heyne / Daniel Graepler; title: Zoega e la filologia / Alessandro Bausi; title: Georg Zoega as Art Critic / Jesper Svenningsen; title: An Antiquarian Depicted : The Visual Reception of Georg Zoega / Anne Haslund Hansen; title: Georg Zoega and Friedrich Munter : The Significance of Their Relationship / Tobias Fischer-Hansen; title: [II] Zoega and Numismatic Studies; title: Zoega studente di numismatica : Il soggiorno a Vienna (1782) e i contatti con Joseph Eckhel / Daniela Williams and Bernhard Woytek; title: Zoega, pionnier de la numismatique alexandrine / Laurent Bricault; title: [III] Zoega and the Origins of Egyptology; title: On the Origins of an Egyptologist / Thomas Christiansen; title: In visita alla "Grande Galleria" : l'antico Egitto a Firenze / Maria Cristina Guidotti; title: The Egyptian Antiquities of Bologna and Venice at Zoega's Time / Daniela Picchi; title: Georg Zoega and the Borgia Collection of Egyptian Antiquities : Cataloguing as a Method / Rosanna Pirelli and Stefania Mainieri; title: A Concealed Attempt at Deciphering Hieroglyphs / Paul John Frandsen; title: "Covered with the Rust of Egyptian Antiquity" : Thomas Ford Hill and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphs / Patricia Usick; title: De origine et usu obeliscorum : Some Notes on an Eighteenth-century Egyptological Study / Emanuele M. Ciampini; title: [IV] Zoega and the Origins of Coptic Studies; title: Gli studi copti fino a Zoega / Tito Orlandi; title: Chenoute et Zoega : l'auteur majeur de la litterature copte revele par le savant danois / Anne Boud'hors; title: The Catalogus codicum copticorum manu scriptorum qui in Museo Borgiano Velitris adservantur : Genesis of a masterpiece / Paola Buzi; title: [V] Zoega and Rome; title: Il collezionismo di orientalia nella Roma di Pio VI / Beatrice Palma Venetucci; title: Georg Zoega e gli scavi nel territorio laziale / Beatrice Cacciotti; title: Friederike Brun, Elisa von der Recke and Georg Zoega : Members of  the "Universitas of Rome" / Adelheid Muller.