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Fischer, Henry George was born on May 10, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry G. and Agnes Beatrice (Hurdman) Fischer.
(This step-by-step guide for students for hieroglyphic pal...)
This step-by-step guide for students for hieroglyphic paleography in supplemented by 165 line drawings and two hundred signs.
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The aim of this book is twofold: first, to provide beginning students with step-by-step guidance in drawing hieroglyphs; and secondly, to supplement the observations of Gardiner in the Sign List at the back of his Egyptian Grammar. The examples include all 24 of the common forms of "alphabetic" (monoconsonantal) signs, and a selection of other signs that are either difficult to draw or that call for additional comment—a total of about 200 in all. Comparative material, emphasizing Old Kingdom models, is presented in 175 line drawings. By familiarizing themselves with this material, along with the points made in the Introduction, students will, at the same time, learn a good deal about hieroglyphic palaeography. (This title was originally published in 1979/80.)
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Fischer, Henry George was born on May 10, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry G. and Agnes Beatrice (Hurdman) Fischer.
Born on May 11, 1923, in Philadelphia, Fischer graduated from Princeton University in 1945, after that he was sent teaching English at the American University of Beirut. Returned in the United States of America, he became an assistant at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and in 1955 he received a Doctor of Philosophy from the same university.
Shortly after he joined an expedition to Egypt and later he became an assistant professor of Egyptology at Yale University. In 1958 he started working as an assistant curator at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, forming a bond with this place that will last for his entire life. In 1963 he became associate curator and in 1964, head of the Department of Egyptology.
In 1970 Fischer was awarded by the museum patron Lila Acheson Wallace, earning a special chair as the curator of Egyptology.
When he retired in 1992, he became a curator emeritus. Fischer"s fields of interest were the arts and culture of the ancient Egyptian nomoi (provinces) and their differences, as well as the Metropolitan Museum collection and the hieroglyphic writing system (his influential work The Orientation of Hieroglyphs).
After his retirement he focused on his other interests, such as writing poetry and playing the Renaissance sackbut. Henry George Fischer died on January 11, 2006 in Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, aged 82.
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( The aim of this book is twofold: first, to provide begi...)
( The aim of this book is twofold: first, to provide begi...)
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Since the same year until 1970 Fischer was a member of the committee for the salvage of Abu Simbel temples from being submerged by the Lake Nasser following construction of the Aswan Dam: the small temple of Dendur, which was donated to the United States of America in 1965 as a gratitude for its efforts, was originally intended to be reconstructed on the banks of the Potomac or the Charles River, but Fischer persuaded the presidential committee that such a placement would have exposed the sandstone blocks to excessive degradation, and the temple was reconstructed and exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum since 1978.
Married Eleanor Armstrong Teel, December 15, 1951. 1 daughter, Katherine Fraser (Mistress Woodman Taylor).