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English summary: In 1900 five German scholars travelled to the region of the second cataract to study pharaonic fortifications and pursue ethnographic research in Nubia. Surplus funds from the Ernst-von-Sieglin-Expedition to Siwa Oasis were utilized to finance the expedition. Taking part were Ludwig Borchardt (1863-1938), later director of the Imperial German Institute for Egyptian Archaeology; the imperial German diplomat Curt von Gruenau (1871-1939); Heinrich Schafer (1868-1957), later director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum; Leipzig professor of Egyptology, Georg Steindorff (1861-1951); and the classical archaeologist Hermann Thiersch (1874-1939).The expedition departed Assuan on March 3rd and went upstream as far as the second cataract and the fortress of Semna, visiting, among other sites, Philae, Kalabsha, Dendur, Dakke, Maharraqa, Amada, Aniba, Abu Simbel, Wadi Halfa and Mirgissa. The tour ended back at Assuan on April 19th .Travelling by boat, the party had ample opportunity to study and record ancient temples, settlements, fortresses, and inscriptions, taking due note of their state of preservation. The scholars also verified and supplemented the results of the famous Prussian Expedition (1842-1845) of Carl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884); subsequently, their records were used for several publications.During the journey two members of the party, Georg Steindorff and Heinrich Schafer, kept diaries, recording memorable events and scientific results. Borchardt's typed copy of Steindorff's diary is preserved at the Swiss Institute in Cairo, whereas Schafer's journal was long believed lost. Recent research through archival material at the German Archaeological Institute's Cairo branch and at the headquarters in Berlin turned up Schafer's journal virtually intact.To enable scholars to utilize this important source not only for the history of Egyptology but also as a travel log for a region nowadays totally submerged beneath the waters of Lake Nasser, Schafer's journal has been annotated and cross-references provided to Steindorff's account. The text is supplemented with contemporaneous illustrations - photographs, water-colours, and postcards - to create an integrated sourcebook. German description: Im Zuge der Archivrecherchen zur Geschichte des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, Kairo im Rahmen des wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Forschungscluster 5 des DAI konnte ein 134 Manuskriptseiten umfassendes Reisetagebuch des deutschen Agyptologen Heinrich Schafer (1868-1957) aus dem Jahr 1900, uber eine gemeinsam mit Ludwig Borchardt (1863-1938), Curt von Gruenau (1871-1939), Hermann Thiersch (1874-1939) und Georg Steindorff (1861-1951) unternommene Reise nach Unternubien zum Gebiet des 2. Nilkatarakts fast vollstandig wieder gewonnen.Neben den Schilderungen einer - immer noch - abenteuerlichen Reise in den Sudan, der noch wenige Jahre zuvor durch den Mahdi-Aufstand erschuttert worden war, bietet der Band einen einfuhrenden Uberblick uber die Archaologie und Kulturgeschichte des heute in den Fluten des Nasser-Stausees versunkenen Gebietes zwischen dem ersten und zweiten Nilkatarakt, zwischen Assuan und Wadi Halfa. Dabei vermitteln Schafers Aufzeichnungen jedoch nicht nur einen Eindruck von den Hinterlassenschaften des antiken Agypten und ihres Erhaltungszustandes um 1900, sondern bieten auch teilweise lebhafte Schilderungen der Kultur und Lebensweise der modernen Nubier.Zur Illustration uber die von Schafer angefertigten Bleistiftskizzen hinaus, wurde der Band mit reichem zeitgenossischem Bildmaterial aus den Archiven u. a. des Agyptischen Museums - Georg Steindorff - in Leipzig, dem Schweizerischen Institut fur Agyptische Bauforschung und Altertumskunde in Kairo und naturlich dem Archiv und der Bibliothek des Deutschen Archaologischen Institutes, Kairo ausgestattet. Zusammen mit dem ausserst farbenfrohen und zum Zeitpunkt der Abfassung des Tagebuches gerade in Deutschland eingefuhrten Mediums der illustrierten Ansichtskarten ist ein reich bebildeter Band zur Forschungsgeschichte der Agyptologie und Sudanarchaologie, sowie der Kulturgeschichte Nubiens und ihrer Erforscher entstanden.
About the Author: Dr. phil. Thomas L. Gertzen studierte Agyptologie, klassische Archaologie und Assyriologie an den Universitaten Munster, Berlin (FU) und Oxford und schloss sein Studium 2007 mit einer Magisterarbeit uber "Methodik und wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Hintergrund der Arbeiten von Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie" ab. 2010 promovierte er am Lehrstuhl fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin uber: "Ecole de Berlin und 'Goldenes Zeitalter' (1882-1914) der Agyptologie als Wissenschaft. Das Lehrer-Schuler-Verhaltnis zwischen G. Ebers, A. Erman und K. Sethe." Neben zahlreichen Forschungsreisen und Archivrecherchen befasste er sich u.a. mit der Digitalisierung der Altakten des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo und ist z. Zt. als Consultant fur das Projekt "Egyptology in the Nazi Era. National Socialism and the Profile of a Humanistic Discipline, 1933-1945" der University of British Columbia tatig. Seine Forschungen zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Agyptologie, Agyptenrezeption und deutschen Altertumswissenschaften im Kaiserreich und wahrend des Ersten Weltkrieges hat er in zahlreichen sowohl wissenschaftlichen als auch popularen Publikationen veroffentlicht.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783895009648
  • Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
  • Publisher Imprint: Dr Ludwig Reichert
  • Depth: 19
  • Height: 267 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: Menschen - Reisen - Forschungen
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3895009644
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: Annotated edition
  • Language: German
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Heinrich Schafers Tagebuch Einer Nubienreise Zum Zweiten Nilkatarakt Im Jahre 1900
  • Width: 216 mm

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