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3 unusual facts about Georg Steindorff


Georg Steindorff

He also brought larger finds from excavations back to Leipzig with him (for example the limestone head of Queen Nefertiti) with the permission of the then French-run Antiquities Service.

Of particular importance are Steindorff's excavations in Giza, Qau, and Aniba between 1903 and 1931.

Georg Steindorff (November 12, 1861, Dessau–August 28, 1951, North Hollywood, California) was a German Egyptologist.


Adolf Erman

Erman's pupils include James Henry Breasted, America's first Professor of Egyptology with his numerous works including his History of Egypt from the Earliest Times Down to the Persian Conquest (1905) and Georg Steindorff's little Koptische Grammatik (1894, ed. 1904), improving greatly on Stern's standard work in regard to phonology and the relationship of Coptic forms to Egyptian, and Sethe's Das Ägyptische Verbum (1899).


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