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Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo | |
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Born | Jan Kmínek-Szedlo April 22, 1828 |
Died | November 24, 1896 | (aged 68)
Nationality | Czech-Italian |
Occupation | Egyptologist |
Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo,
née Jan Kmínek-Szedlo (April 22, 1828 – November 24, 1896) was a Czech–Italian
Egyptologist.
He is usually remembered as the first Egyptologist from what nowadays is the
Czech Republic
[1] but since he spent most of his life and fulfilled his whole career in
Italy, he is usually not seen as the founder of Czech Egyptology, a figure rather identified in the later
František Lexa.
[2]
Born in
Prague in 1828, he graduated from high school in 1846 in
Plzeň and in the next two years he attended the Faculty of Arts of the
Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague.
A sympathizer of the
revolutionary events of 1848, in this year Kminek-Szedlo was forced to join the Austrian army and was later dispatched in
Northern Italy.
After leaving the army he remained in Italy to continue his studies, Italianizing his given name in Giovanni. He got a job in the newly founded (1871) Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna [1] initially as a demonstrator, but later he managed to become the curator of the Egyptian collection. Since 1878 he was appointed lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Bologna, and around this period he extensively published works mainly regarding the Egyptian collection of Bologna. His best remembered work is a catalogue of the entire collection, published in 1895 and still in use nowadays; almost all of the artifacts has a code name KS (followed by a number) after the two initials of his last name.
Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo died in Bologna in November 24, 1896.
![]() | This article includes a list of general
references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding
inline citations. (January 2016) |
Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo | |
---|---|
![]() First page of an 1877 work by Kminek-Szedlo | |
Born | Jan Kmínek-Szedlo April 22, 1828 |
Died | November 24, 1896 | (aged 68)
Nationality | Czech-Italian |
Occupation | Egyptologist |
Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo,
née Jan Kmínek-Szedlo (April 22, 1828 – November 24, 1896) was a Czech–Italian
Egyptologist.
He is usually remembered as the first Egyptologist from what nowadays is the
Czech Republic
[1] but since he spent most of his life and fulfilled his whole career in
Italy, he is usually not seen as the founder of Czech Egyptology, a figure rather identified in the later
František Lexa.
[2]
Born in
Prague in 1828, he graduated from high school in 1846 in
Plzeň and in the next two years he attended the Faculty of Arts of the
Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague.
A sympathizer of the
revolutionary events of 1848, in this year Kminek-Szedlo was forced to join the Austrian army and was later dispatched in
Northern Italy.
After leaving the army he remained in Italy to continue his studies, Italianizing his given name in Giovanni. He got a job in the newly founded (1871) Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna [1] initially as a demonstrator, but later he managed to become the curator of the Egyptian collection. Since 1878 he was appointed lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Bologna, and around this period he extensively published works mainly regarding the Egyptian collection of Bologna. His best remembered work is a catalogue of the entire collection, published in 1895 and still in use nowadays; almost all of the artifacts has a code name KS (followed by a number) after the two initials of his last name.
Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo died in Bologna in November 24, 1896.