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Life of J.D. Åkerblad

Egyptian Decipherment and Orientalism in Revolutionary Times

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Johan David Åkerblad (1763–1819) contributed to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Demotic and is known as a predecessor of Jean-François Champollion. This intellectual biography offers a new and less heroic interpretation of the first reading of the Egyptian scripts. Åkerblad, an exceptional linguist, was a diplomat and orientalist who spent several decades living in the Ottoman Empire, France and Italy. Of humble birth, he was a supporter of the French Revolution – something that stymied his career. His life cannot be understood in a purely Swedish national framework, and this study firmly situates him as an international scholar. The book discusses European expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean during the tumultuous decades around the year 1800, and traces Åkerblad’s momentous life in relation to the debates on ‘orientalism,’ the tradition of classical studies and the history of science.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-01-11
Mått155 x 235 x 34 mm
Vikt921 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor456
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004211162

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List of Figures, Tables and PlatesAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroductionPart I – The making of a diplomat and orientalist1. Family and education2. Constantinople – city of rumours3. Diplomacy and intrigue4. Travel in the East5. War in Egypt6. Mixing East and West7. “The sabre in one hand and the Koran in the other”Part II – 1789–1801: Revolution and turmoil8. Return to Europe9. To Constantinople and back10. “A dangerous man of Enlightenment”11. The Roman Republic 1798–9912. Final year in SwedenPart III – Reading Egyptian: deciphering the Rosetta inscriptions13. “I am alive only in Paris”14. Åkerblad’s Rosetta Lettre15. Geographic competition16. Egyptology and orientalismPart IV – The Napoleonic wars and Restoration in Italy17. Book thefts, inkblots and French expropriations18. Antiquarian in Rome19. Salons and belle amiche20. Curses and cabals21. Oriental Rome22. Archaeology and art23. French defeat24. Digging with the Duchess of Devonshire25. “Despised by Sweden and by every Swede”ConclusionReferencesIndexes