Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards

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Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards CBE (born July 21, 1909 in London , † September 24, 1996 ibid) was a British Egyptologist .

Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards was initially the most senior Egyptologist in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, and from 1955 to 1974 director of the now independent Egyptian Department of the British Museum in London . He was succeeded by Thomas Garnet Henry James . Edwards was particularly specialized in the Egyptian pyramids . Since 1962 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

Publications

  • The Pyramids of Egypt (= Pelican Books. 168). Penguin, West Drayton et al. 1947 (Revised edition. Parrish, London et al. 1961; Reprinted with minor revisions: Pelican Books, Harmondsworth 1976, ISBN 0-14-020168-8 ; Revised edition. Viking, Harmondsworth et al. 1985, ISBN 0-670- 80153-4 ; German edition: Die ägyptischen Pyramiden. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1967).
  • Tutankhamun. His tomb and its treasures. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1976, ISBN 0-394-41170-6 (German edition: Tutankhamun. The grave and its treasures. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1978, ISBN 3-7857-0211-6 ), exhibition catalog.
  • From the pyramids to Tutankhamun. Memoirs of an Egyptologist. Oxbow, Oxford 2000, ISBN 1-8421-7008-2 .

literature

  • TGH James: Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, 1909-1996 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 97 , 1998, pp. 273-290 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1996
Place of death London