Henry George Fischer

Henry George Fischer (born May 10, 1923 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † January 11, 2006 in Newtown , Pennsylvania) was an American Egyptologist .

Life

Henry George Fischer graduated from Princeton in 1945 . He then taught English at the American University in Beirut . He then worked as an assistant at the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania . In 1955 he received his doctorate there under Rudolf Anthes . He took part in the university's first expedition to Egypt and then moved to Yale as an assistant professor before finally finding his final position at the Metropolitan Museum .

At the museum, Fischer dealt with the material remains as well as Egyptian literature and music. During his scientific life he dealt with the cultural history of ancient Egypt and the history of the Egyptian provinces. He also presented many publications on this, as well as on Egyptian hieroglyphs and calligraphy . In 1958 he became an assistant and in 1963 an employee of the museum. In 1964 he was appointed head of the Egyptian department. In 1970 he was given a special position as Egyptological curator by a patron . He held this position until his retirement in 1992.

From 1964 to 1970, Fischer headed the American Committee to Save the Abu Simbel Temples . In 1996 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Fonts

• Ancient Egyptian representations of turtles. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1968
• Ancient Egyptian epigraphy and palaeography. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1976
• Egyptian Studies I: Varia I. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1976
• Reversals, Egyptian Studies II. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1977
• Egyptian Studies II: The Orientation of Hieroglyphs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1977
• The Renaissance sackbut and its use today. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1984
• Egyptian titles of the Middle Kingdom. A supplement to Wm. Ward's index. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1985
• Dendera in the Third Millennium BC Down to the Theban Domination of Upper Egypt. Locust Valley, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1968
• L'écriture et l'art de l'Egypte ancienne. Quatre leçons sur la paleographie et l. , Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1986
• Egyptian women of the Old Kingdom and of the Heracleopolitan period. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1989, 2nd edition 2000 digitized
• The tomb of I̕p at ElṢaff. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1996
• Varia nova. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1996
• Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy, A Beginner's Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1999 Digitized

literature

• Journal of Egyptian Language and Classical Studies. Volumes 133–135, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006.

Web links

• Henry George Fischer, 82, Egyptologist at Met Museum, This obituary in the New York Times
• Marginalia IV (PDF file; 1.25 MB) HG Fischer was in the process of completing this article until he died prematurely in January 2006. Peter Der Manuelian , the editor, tried to edit and complete this document as faithfully as possible for publication, based on the manuscript and the correspondence between him and HG Fischer.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 28, 2020 .