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Kurt Heinrich Sethe

Among Sethe's students were Polotsky and Gardiner; Sethe's anthology, Aegyptische Lesestuecke, is still doing sterling service to the beginners in the study of the language.


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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