George Andrew Reisner
















George Andrew Reisner

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George Andrew Reisner

Born
November 5, 1867 (1867-11-05)

Indianapolis, Indiana

Died
June 6, 1942 (1942-06-07) (aged 74)

Giza, Egypt

NationalityAmerican
Known forAncient Egypt
Spouse(s)Mary Putnam Bronson
ChildrenMary B. Reisner
Parent(s)Mary Elizabeth Mason
George Andrew Reisner I

George Andrew Reisner (November 5, 1867 – June 6, 1942) was an American archaeologist of Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Palestine.




Contents





  • 1 Biography


  • 2 Archaeology career


  • 3 Timeline


  • 4 Published works


  • 5 Head coaching record


  • 6 References


  • 7 Further reading


  • 8 External links




Biography


George Andrew Reisner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His parents were George Andrew Reisner I and Mary Elizabeth Mason. His father’s parents were of German descent.[1]


He married Mary Putnam Bronson, with whom he had a daughter, also called Mary.


In 1889, Reisner was head football coach at Purdue University, coaching for one season and compiling a record of 2–1.



Archaeology career


Upon his studies at Jebel Barkal (The Holy Mountain), in Nubia he found the Nubian kings were not buried in the pyramids but outside of them. He also found the skull of a Nubian female (who he thought was a king) which is in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. Reisner believed that Kerma was originally the base of an Egyptian governor and that these Egyptian rulers evolved into the independent monarchs of Kerma.


He also created a list of Egyptian viceroys of Kush. He found the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I, the mother of King Khufu (Cheops in Greek) who built the Great Pyramid at Giza. During this time he also explored mastabas. Arthur Merton (London Times) remarked in 1936 in the aftermath of the Abuwtiyuw discovery that Reisner "enjoys an unrivalled position not only as the outstanding figure in present-day Egyptology, but also as a man whose soundness of judgement and extensive general knowledge are widely conceded."[2]


In 1902 permission to excavate the Western cemetery in Giza was granted by Gaston Maspero, director of the Egyptian Antiquities Service. The area was divided into three sections, and chosen by lot. The southern section was given to the Italians under Ernesto Schiaparelli, the northern strip to the Germans under Ludwig Borchardt, and the middle section to Andrew Reisner.[3]
He met Queen Marie of Romania in Giza.[4]


In Egypt, Reisner developed a new archaeological technique which became a standard in the profession, combining the British methods of Petrie, the German methods of Dorpfeld and Koldewey, his own American practicality and his skill for large-scale organization.
In 1908, after a decade in Egypt, Reisner headed the Harvard excavation of Samaria.[5]



Timeline


  • 1897–1899: Classified Egyptology collection of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

  • 1899–1905: Led the Hearst Expedition of the University of California to explore burial grounds at and around Qift

  • 1905: Edited The Hearst Medical Papyrus

  • 1905–1914: Assistant professor of Egyptology at Harvard University

  • 1907–1909: Directed archaeological survey of Nubia (Nilotic Sudan) for Egyptian government

  • 1910–1942: Curator of Egyptian collections at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

  • 1914–1942: Professor of Egyptology at Harvard University

  • 1916: Discovers in Jebel Barkal, in two separate caches, hard stone statues, representing Taharqa and four of his five successors: Tanwetamani, Senkamanisken, Anlamani, and Aspelta

  • 1916–1923: Explored pyramids of Meroë, dug out temple at Napata

  • 1931: Wrote Mycerinus (alternative name of Menkaure)

  • 1942: Published final work, A History of the Giza Necropolis


Published works



  • Amulets. Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale. 1907..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em (reprint
    ISBN 978-1-57898-718-4)


  • Early dynastic cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. 1908.


  • The Egyptian conception of immortality. Cambridge: The Riverside Press (Houghton Mifflin). 1912.


  • Excavations at Kerma. Cambridge: Peabody Museum of Harvard University. 1923. (reprint
    ISBN 0-527-01028-6)


  • Harvard excavations at Samaria, 1908-1910. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1924. (with Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon)


  • Mycerinus, the temples of the third pyramid at Giza,. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1931.


  • The development of the Egyptian tomb down to the accession of Cheops. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1936.


  • A history of the Giza Necropolis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1942.


  • Canopics. Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale. 1967. (completed by Mohammad Hassan Abd-ul-Rahman)


Head coaching record





















Year
Team
Overall
ConferenceStanding
Bowl/playoffs

Purdue (Independent) (1889)

1889

Purdue
2–1

Purdue:
2–1
Total:2–1


References




  1. ^ Reisner, George Andrew. A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars.


  2. ^ Merton 1936, p. 23.


  3. ^ Markowitz, Yvonne J., Joyce L. Haynes, and Rita E. Freed. Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids: Highlights from the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition. Boston, Mass: MFA Publications, 2002. Page 33.


  4. ^ George Andrew Reisner


  5. ^ The Archaeology of Palestine, W.F. Albright, 1960, p.34




Further reading


  • Reisner Biography

  • "Reisner, George Andrew." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 11 Nov. 2005 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9063116>.


  • Merton, Arthur (July 1936). "George Reisner". The Rotarian. Rotary International. p. 23. ISSN 0035-838X. Retrieved 12 October 2012.


External links



  • Works by George Andrew Reisner at Project Gutenberg


  • Works by or about George Andrew Reisner at Internet Archive









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