George Alexander Hoskins

George Alexander Hoskins (* 1802 ; † November 21, 1863 in Rome ) was a British traveler , antiquities collector and artist.

George Alexander Hoskins was the second son of George Hoskins and Mary Alison. In 1839 he married Mary Thornton. He toured Egypt twice. In the 1830s he traveled to Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia . From 1832 to 1833 he worked with Robert Hay in Qurna ( Luxor ) and in the al-Kharga valley . From 1860 to 1861 he traveled to Egypt again. His most important work, three volumes of drawings that he made with Luchese Bandoni , is now in the Griffith Institute in Oxford . At the end of his life he was interested in the British and European prison reform movement.

Fonts

• Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile. Exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali, and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe. With a map, and 90 illustrations of the temples, pyramids, etc. of Meroe, Gibel-el-Birkel, Solib, etc., from drawings finished on the spot, by the author and an artist, whom he employed , Rees, Orme , Brown, Green, [and] Longman, London 1835. (Digitized MDZ urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10366655-7 ).
• Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan desert. With an account of the Oasis of Amun and the other Oases under the dominion of the pasha of Egypt. With a map and twenty plates illustrating the temples , Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, [and] Longman, London 1837.
• A Winter in Upper and Lower Egypt , Hurst and Blackett, London 1863.

literature

• Warren R Dawson, Morris L Bierbrier, Eric P Uphill: Who was who in Egyptology. 3rd, revised edition, The Egypt Exploration Society, London 1995, ISBN 978-0-85698-125-8 , p. 209.