| dc.contributor.author | THOMASSON, Fredrik | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-25T12:41:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-25T12:41:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Leiden : Brill, 2013, Brill's studies in intellectual history, Vol. 213 | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9789004236356 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/58984 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | -- Preliminary Material
-- Introduction
1. Family and Education
2. Constantinople—City of Rumours
3. Diplomacy and Intrigue
4. Travel in the East
5. War in Egypt
6. Mixing East and West
7. “The Sabre in One Hand and the Koran in the Other”
8. Return to Europe
9. To Constantinople and Back
10. “A Dangerous Man of Enlightenment”
11. The Roman Republic 1798–99
12. Final Year in Sweden
13. “I Am Alive Only in Paris”
14. Åkerblad’s Rosetta Lettre
15. Geographic Competition
16. Egyptology and Orientalism
17. Book Thefts, Inkblots and French Expropriations
18. Antiquarian in Rome
19. Salons and Belle Amiche
20. Curses and Cabals
21. Oriental Rome
22. Archaeology and Art
23. French Defeat
24. Digging with the Duchess of Devonshire
25. “Despised by Sweden and by Every Swede”
-- Conclusion
-- Bibliography
-- Index
-- Colour Plates | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Brill | en |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/12706 | en |
| dc.title | The life of J. D. Åkerblad : Egyptian decipherment and Orientalism in revolutionary times | en |
| dc.type | Book | en |
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| dc.description.version | Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2009 | en |
