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Life of J.D. Åkerblad

Fredrik Thomasson
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      Johan David Åkerblad (1763–1819) contributed to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic and is known as a predecessor of Jean-François Champollion. This intellectual biography offers a new and less heroic interpretation of the first reading of the Egyptian scripts. Åkerblad, an exceptional linguist, was a diplomat and orientalist who spent several decades living in the Ottoman Empire, France and Italy. Of humble birth, he was a supporter of the French Revolution – something that stymied his career. His life cannot be understood in a purely Swedish national framework, and this study firmly situates him as an international scholar. The book discusses European expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean during the tumultuous decades around the year 1800, and traces Åkerblad’s momentous life in relation to the debates on ‘orientalism,’ the tradition of classical studies and the history of science.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Fredrik Thomasson EAN: 9789004211162 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 921 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-01-11 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Handwriting WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Biography: science, technology and medicine, European history

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      Fredrik Thomasson, Ph.D. (2009) in History, European University Institute, Florence, is a Research Fellow at Uppsala University. He has recently published a number of articles on eighteenth century history, e.g. in the International Journal of Cultural Property, Lychnos and several anthologies.
      Johan David Åkerblad (1763–1819) contributed to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic and is known as a predecessor of Jean-François Champollion. This intellectual biography offers a new and less heroic interpretation of the first reading of the Egyptian scripts. Åkerblad, an exceptional linguist, was a diplomat and orientalist who spent several decades living in the Ottoman Empire, France and Italy. Of humble birth, he was a supporter of the French Revolution – something that stymied his career. His life cannot be understood in a purely Swedish national framework, and this study firmly situates him as an international scholar. The book discusses European expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean during the tumultuous decades around the year 1800, and traces Åkerblad’s momentous life in relation to the debates on ‘orientalism,’ the tradition of classical studies and the history of science.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Fredrik Thomasson EAN: 9789004211162 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 921 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-01-11 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Handwriting WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Biography: science, technology and medicine, European history

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      Fredrik Thomasson, Ph.D. (2009) in History, European University Institute, Florence, is a Research Fellow at Uppsala University. He has recently published a number of articles on eighteenth century history, e.g. in the International Journal of Cultural Property, Lychnos and several anthologies.

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