Ambrose Lansing
Ambrose Lansing (born September 20, 1891 in Egypt , † May 28, 1959 in Apache Junction , Arizona ) was an American Egyptologist and anthropologist .
Life
Lansing studied at Columbia University in New York City and with Georg Steindorff at Leipzig University . In 1911 he became an employee of the Egypt department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had only been founded five years earlier . He worked first as a participant and later as a leader in several campaigns in the excavations of the museum at the Sesostris I pyramid in Lischt and in the Theban necropolis , on which he published numerous articles, mainly in the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . In 1939 he succeeded Herbert E. Winlock as curator of the Egypt department of the Metropolitan Museum. In 1944 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1952 he retired. Lansing died in 1959 at the age of 67.
Fonts
- Ancient Egyptian Jewelry. A picture book. (1940)
literature
- Brief words of remembrance. In: Archive for Orient Research. Volume 19, 1959/60, pp. 270-271 ( JSTOR 41637157 ).
- Recent deaths. In: Science. New Series, Volume 129, No. 3365, June 26, 1959, p. 1730 ( JSTOR 1757778 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ambrose Lansing in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lansing, Ambrose |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Egyptologist and anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Egypt |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1959 |
| Place of death | Apache Junction , Arizona |