Thomas Garnet Henry James

Thomas Garnet Henry James (born May 8, 1923 in Neath , Neath Port Talbot , Wales , Great Britain , † December 16, 2009 ) was a British Egyptologist .

Thomas Garnet Henry James studied at Oxford University , the main academic teachers were Battiscombe Gunn (1883–1950) and Alan Gardiner . In 1947 he graduated in Classical Antiquity , and in 1950 in Oriental Studies with a specialization in Egyptology. In 1951 he began to work for the department of the Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities of the British Museum , from 1955 on the now independent Egyptian department under its first director Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards . From 1974 to 1988, James succeeded Edwards as head of the museum's Egyptian department. In the 1960s he published the museum's monumental ancient Egyptian inscriptions in several publications .

He carried out various excavations in Egypt and was also active there epigraphically . In the 1950s, for example, he examined a grave in Saqqara and researched several New Kingdom shrines in Silsila . In Europe and the USA he developed a lively lecture activity and reached a wide readership with various publications on ancient Egyptian art , history and culture. James had been a member of the British Academy since 1974 and became Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1984 . In Germany he was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts

• Corpus of Hieroglyphic Inscriptions in the Brooklyn Museum I: From Dynasty I to the End of Dynasty XVIII. Brooklyn Museum Bookshop, Brooklyn, New York City 1974, ISBN 0-913696-16-1 .
• Pharaoh's people. Life in Ancient Egypt. Artemis, Zurich / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7608-0745-3 .
  • as dtv-Geschichte paperback, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-11454-1 .
• Tutankhamun. The eternal splendor of the young pharaoh. Müller, Cologne 2002, ISBN 88-8095-545-4 .
• Ramses II. Müller, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89893-037-8 .
• Great pharaohs. Tutankhamun and Ramses II. Weltbild, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-8289-0567-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Garnet Henry James in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary at timesonline