Svetlana Ismailovna Khojash
Svetlana Ismailowna Chodschasch (also Svetlana Ismailowna Hodschasch , Svetlana Hodjash , Russian Светлана Измайловна Ходжаш , scientific. Transliteration Svetlana Izmajlovna Chodžaš ; born on 10. November 1923 in Yevpatoria , ASSR Crimea , died on 12. August 2008 in Moscow ) was a Soviet or Russian Egyptologist and ancient orientalist .
Life
Svetlana Chodschasch came from a Karaite family. Her mother died when she was very young. Her father was shot dead by German soldiers in 1941. Khodschash fled to Moscow, where she enrolled at Lomonosov University and began studying ancient art history. In 1944 Svetlana Khodschasch became an employee at the Pushkin Museum . In 1945 she finished her studies. In 1949 she was working Художественное ремесло древнего Египта периода XVIII династии ( handicraft in ancient Egypt during the 18th Dynasty ) PhD .
From 1952 Svetlana Khodschasch took part in the excavations of the Pushkin Museum in the Urartian fortress Erebuni in Yerevan , in 1959 she took over the excavation management. She took part in this work for about 20 years.
In 1972 Svetlana Khodschasch became head of the ancient oriental department of the Pushkin Museum. In 1990 she received her habilitation at the University of Tbilisi with the thesis Древнеегипетская глиптика ( Ancient Egyptian Glyptic ) . Based on the preliminary work of Boris Alexandrowitsch Turajew , Svetlana Chodschasch worked with Oleg Berlew in the 1980s and 1990s to compile a complete directory of all Egyptian antiquities in the museums and university collections of the former Soviet Union .
Fonts
- Египетское искусство в Государственном музее изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина. (1971)
- Les antiquités égyptiennes au Musée des Beaux-Arts Pouchkine. 1971
- with NS Truchtanowa, KL Oganesian: Эребуни. памятник урарт. зодчества VIII-VI в. до н. э. (1979)
- with Oleg Dmitrijewitsch Berlew: The Egyptian Reliefs and Stelae in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. (1982)
- with Vsevolod Vladimirovich Pavlov: Египетская пластика малых форм. (1985)
- with Oleg Dmitrijewitsch Berlew: Catalog of the Monuments of Ancient Egypt. From the Museums of Russian Federation, Ukraine, Bielorussia, Caucasus, Middle Asia and Baltic States. (1998)
- Древнеегипетские скарабеи. (1999)
- Древнеегипетское ювелирное искусство = Ancient Egyptian Jewelery. (2001)
- Изображения древнеегипетского бога Беса = God bes`s images in the ancient egyptian art. (2004)
- with Oleg Dmitrijewitsch Berlew: Sculpture of Ancient Egypt (Скульптура древнего Египта в собрании ГМИИ). (2004)
- Ancient Egyptian vessels in the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow. (2005)
literature
- Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society. London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , pp. 258-259.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Khodschasch, Svetlana Ismailovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Khodschasch, Svetlana Ismailovna; Hodjash, Svetlana; Chodžaš, Svetlana Izmajlovna; Ходжаш, Светлана Измайловна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet or Russian Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yevpatoria |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 2008 |
| Place of death | Moscow |