American archaeologist, Egyptologist and historian (1865 – 1935)
James Henry Breasted
James Breasted in Chicago, 1928.
Born
(1865-08-27)August 27, 1865
Rockford, Illinois
Died
December 2, 1935(1935-12-02) (aged 70)
New York City
Nationality
American
Alma mater
North Central College
Yale University
University of Berlin
Known for
Popularizing the term "Fertile Crescent"
Founder of the Oriental Institute
Scientific career
Fields
Archaeology
Egyptology
Institutions
University of Chicago
Thesis
De hymnis in Solem sub rege Amenophide IV conceptis(1894)
Doctoral advisor
Adolf Erman
Doctoral students
Robert John Braidwood
James Henry Breasted (/ˈbrɛstɪd/; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology – he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to full professor, and held the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States.
Breasted was a committed field researcher in Egypt and the Levant and had a productive interest in recording and interpreting ancient writings, especially from sources and structures that he feared may be lost forever. In 1919 he founded the Oriental Institute (later known as, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) at the University of Chicago, a center for interdisciplinary study of ancient civilizations. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[1]
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