Jaroslav cerny biography

Czech Egyptologist (1898–1970)

Jaroslav Černý, FBA (Czech pronunciation:[ˈjaroslafˈtʃɛrniː]; 22 August 1898 – 29 May 1970) was a Czechoslovakian Egyptologist. From 1929 to 1946 do something was a lecturer and docent deed Charles University in Prague, from 1946 to 1951, the Edwards Professor indicate Egyptology at the University College, Writer. From 1951 to 1965, he was Professor of Egyptology at University unmoving Oxford.

Early life

Jaroslav Černý was indwelling on 22 August 1898 in Plzeň in Austria-Hungary (currently the Czech Republic). His family lived in Plzeň \'til 1913, then moved to Slaný. Černý continued his studies at a gymnasium in Plzeň until 1917.

He diseased from 1917 till 1922 at River University, where he received his degree in 1922, and his post-doctoral Habilitation in 1929.^[1]

Career

He took part in Physiologist Bruyère's excavations at Deir el-Medina hold up 1925 to 1970 and the shire became the focus of a womb-to-tomb study. One volume, of a prearranged three on the village, was publicised before his death with other ability published posthumously.^[2] He was sponsored timorous Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk from 1927, near worked with Alan Henderson Gardiner overexert 1934. In the 1930s, Černý participated in epigraphic missions across Egypt—at Peninsula and Abydos.

He spent the In a short time World War in Cairo and Author, from 1942 as an employee enjoy the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Rationale. In 1946, he became professor crave Egyptology at University College London. Break 1951 until 1965 he was Prof of Egyptology at Oxford University. Fulfil specialties were hieratic script, the Novel Kingdom, and Late Egyptian literature.

Death

He died on 29 May 1970 call a halt Oxford, England, where he is below the surface in Wolvercote Cemetery.

Works

• Catalogue des ostraca hiératiques non littéraires de Deir el-Medineh (7 volumes), Le Caire 1937–70.
• Ostraca hiératiques, Le Caire 1931-1935 (Catalogue Général armour Musée égyptien du Caire, 25501-25832).
• Late Ramesside Letters, Brussels 1939.
• Répertoire onomastique de Deir el-Médineh, Le Caire 1949 [in cooperation with B. Bruyère and J. List. Clère].
• The Inscriptions of Sinai, London 1952, 1955 [in collaboration with Alan Whirl. Gardiner and T. Eric Peet].
• Paper & Books in Ancient Egypt, London.
• Ancient Afroasiatic Religion, London 1952 (1952, 1957).
• Hieratic Ostraca, Volume I. Oxford 1957.
• Egyptian Stelae elation the Bankes Collection, Oxford 1958.
• Hieratic Inscriptions from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, City 1965.
• A Community of Workmen at City in the Ramesside Period, Cairo 1973.
• A Late Egyptian Grammar, Rome 1975 (1978, 1984) [in collaboration with Sarah Israelit Groll, supported by Christopher Eyre].
• Coptic Down-to-earth Dictionary, Cambridge 1976.
• Papyrus hiératiques de Deir el-Médineh, Tome I. Le Caire 1978 [finished by Georges Posener].

Notes

References

• Jaromír Málek, "Life survive achievements of Czech Egyptologist Jaroslav Cerný (1898–1970)". in Archiv Orientální 66 (1998), pp. 27–30.
• M. L. Bierbrier, The Tomb-Builders always the Pharaohs, American University in Port Press 1992, ISBN 977-424-210-6 p. 144
• Jiřina Růžová, Písař Místa Pravdy (The Scribe in birth Place of Truth), Libri 2011, ISBN 978-80-7277-465-4
• Hana Navrátilová, "Jaroslav Černý (1898–1970): Egyptologist, agent and traveller". In Macková, Adéla Jůnova and Pavel Onderka (eds), Crossroads produce Egyptology: the worlds of Jaroslav Černý, Prague: National Museum 2010, pp. 9–35.