Jaroslav Černý (Egyptologist)

Jaroslav Černý , (born August 22, 1898 in Pilsen , † May 29, 1970 in Oxford ) was a Czech Egyptologist .

Černý studied at Charles University in Prague from 1917 to 1922, and completed his habilitation there in 1929. From 1925 he took part in French excavations in Deir el-Medina / Thebes . In 1946 he was appointed Professor of Egyptology at University College London . He then worked from 1951 to 1965 at Oxford University . His specialty was hieratic script , the New Kingdom and New Egyptian literature. In 1953 he became a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

Publications

Catalog des ostraca hiératiques non littéraires de Deir el-Medineh , 7 volumes, Cairo 1937–70.
Ostraca hiératiques , Cairo 1935. (Catalog Général du Musée égyptien du Caire, 25501-25832.)
Late Ramesside letters , Brussels 1939.
Répertoire onomastique de Deir el-Médineh , Cairo 1949. In collaboration with B. Bruyère and JJ Clère.
The Inscriptions of Sinai , London 1952, 1955. Cooperation with Alan H. Gardiner and T. Eric Peet.
Paper & Books in Ancient Egypt , London 1947.
Ancient Egyptian Religion , London 1952 (1952, 1957).
Hieratic Ostraca , Volume I. Oxford 1957.
Egyptian Stelae in the Bankes Collection , Oxford 1958.
Hieratic Inscriptions from the Tomb of Tut'ankhamun , Oxford 1965.
A Community of Workmen at Thebes in the Ramesside Period , Cairo 1973.
A Late Egyptian Grammar , Rome 1975 (1978, 1984). Together with Sarah Israelit Groll, supported by Christopher Eyre.
Coptic Etymological Dictionary , Cambridge 1976.
Papyrus hiératiques de Deir el-Médineh , Volume I. Cairo 1978. Completed by Georges Posener.

IES Edwards: Jaroslav Černý, 1898–1970 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 58 , 1974, pp. 367-377 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).