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Frankfort, Henri was born on February 24, 1897 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Son of Benjamin Philippe and Mathilde (Israëls) Frankfort.
( The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was te...)
The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a "humanized" world to the achievement of detached intellectual reasoning. The authors describe and analyze the spiritual life of three ancient civilizations: the Egyptians, whose thinking was profoundly influenced by the daily rebirth of the sun and the annual rebirth of the Nile; the Mesopotamians, who believed the stars, moon, and stones were all citizens of a cosmic state; and the Hebrews, who transcended prevailing mythopoeic thought with their cosmogony of the will of God. In the concluding chapter the Frankforts show that the Greeks, with their intellectual courage, were the first culture to discover a realm of speculative thought in which myth was overcome.
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Fascinating book explores the underlying concept of the changeless as the basis of Egyptian religion, and how it unifies what scholars had believed to be an unrelated jungle of weird myths, doctrines, and practices generated by local cults. Relation of the idea of the changeless to moral and political philosophy, Egyptian government and society, literature and art. ". . . one of the finest elucidations of these materials that we have anywhere." — American Historical Review. Chronological Table. Index. Preface. 32 halftones.
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Traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. Frankfort also covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites, the Levant in the second millennium BC, the Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria and Ancient Persia.
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Traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This text also covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites, of the Levant in the second millennium BC, of the Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria, and of Ancient Persia.
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"Henri Frankfort attempts to establish the cultural innovations marking the dim boundary between the prehistoric millennia and our own history. He asserts that all civilizations have an elusive and unique identity," and this he attempts to chronicle in this history.
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This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental difference in viewpoint between the peoples of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. By examining the forms of kingship which evolved in the two countries, Frankfort discovered that beneath resemblances fostered by similar cultural growth and geographical location lay differences based partly upon the natural conditions under which each society developed. The river flood which annually renewed life in the Nile Valley gave Egyptians a cheerful confidence in the permanence of established things and faith in life after death. Their Mesopotamian contemporaries, however, viewed anxiously the harsh, hostile workings of nature. Frank's superb work, first published in 1948 and now supplemented with a preface by Samuel Noah Kramer, demonstrates how the Egyptian and Mesopotamian attitudes toward nature related to their concept of kingship. In both countries the people regarded the king as their mediator with the gods, but in Mesopotamia the king was only the foremost citizen, while in Egypt the ruler was a divine descendant of the gods and the earthly representative of the God Horus.
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archaeologist egyptologist university professor
Frankfort, Henri was born on February 24, 1897 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Son of Benjamin Philippe and Mathilde (Israëls) Frankfort.
Born in Amsterdam, Frankfort studied history at the University of Amsterdam and then moved to London, where in 1924, he took an Master of Arts under Sir Flinders Petrie at the University College. In 1927 he gained a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leiden.
Between 1925 and 1929 Frankfort was the director of the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) of London at El-Amarna, Abydos and Armant. In 1929 he was invited by Henry Breasted to become Field Director of the Oriental Institute (OI) of Chicago expedition to Iraq. He became foreign member in 1950.
In 1937 Frankfort and Emil Kraeling identified a woman on the Burney Relief (c 1700BCE) as Lilith of later Jewish mythology, though this identification is now generally rejected.
Frankfort published Kingship and the Gods in 1948, "a classic work" in the opinion of John Baines. In 1948 he became director of the Warburg Institute in London.
Along with EA Wallis Budge, he was revolutionary for his time for suggesting that Egyptian civilization, culturally, religiously, and ethnically arose from an African, instead of an Asian base. He wrote 15 books and monographs and about 73 articles for journals about ancient Egypt, archaeology and cultural anthropology, especially on the religious systems of the Ancient Near East.
Erik Hornung in his influential work "Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt, The One and the Many" acknowledged his debt to previous work done by Henri Frankfort.
He died in London.
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( This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental di...)
(Traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian ...)
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Served in Netherlands Army, 1915-1917. Fellow Royal Anthropology Institute Great Britain and Ireland. Member American Philosophical Society, Egypt Exploration Society.
Married Henriette Antonia Groenewegen, December 31, 1923 (divorced). Married second, Enrigueta Harris, June 27, 1952.