James Henry Breasted

James Breasted in Chicago, 1928. James Henry Breasted (; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology – he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to full professor, and held the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States.

Breasted was a committed field researcher in Egypt and the Levant and had a productive interest in recording and interpreting ancient writings, especially from sources and structures that he feared may be lost forever. In 1919 he founded the Oriental Institute (later known as, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) at the University of Chicago, a center for interdisciplinary study of ancient civilizations. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Chicago : Denoyer-Geppert Co., c1951.
    62 p. text iii-lxvi.
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    Boston ; New York [etc.] : Ginn and Co., [c1929]
    xiii, 668, xiv p. : col. front., illus., plates (part col.) ports., maps (part double) ; 20 cm.
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    Chicago : Denoyer-Geppert Co., c1947.
    xxxvi, 58, xxxvii-ixii p. incl. maps (part col.) 28 cm.
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    Boston ; New York [etc.] : Ginn and Co., [c1919]
    xi, 417 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 20 cm.
    Also issued online.
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    Boston ; New York [etc.] : Ginn & Co., [c1920]
    xiii, 665, xiv p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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    Chicago : Denoyer-Geppert Co., [c1918]
    134 p. ; 21 cm.
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    Boston ; New York [etc.] : Ginn and Company, [c1935]
    xiii, 823 p. ill. (incl. plans ) IV col. pl. (incl. front.) maps (part double) diagr. ; 21 cm.
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    Boston ; New York [etc.] : Ginn and Company, [c1916]
    xx, 742 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 20 cm.
    Also issued online.
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    Boston ; New York, [etc] : Ginn, c1921.
    365, xxi p. : front., ill., port., maps ; 20 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935...
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    Boston ; New York, [etc.] : Ginn and Co., [c1924]
    xiv, 628, xlix p. : col. front., ill., plates (part col.) ports. (1 col.) maps ; 20 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935...
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    Boston : Ginn and Co., [c1921]
    xiv, 667, xxxviii p. : ill. (some col.), front., maps (some col.) ; 20 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935...
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    Boston : Ginn, c1929.
    xiv, 632, xlix, [100] p. : ill. (1 col.), col. maps, ports. ; 20 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935...
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    Boston ; New York : Ginn, [c1919]
    2 v. : ill. (some col.), ports., maps ; 20 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935...
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    Boston ; New York, [etc] : Ginn, c1907, c1912.
    2 v. : ill, maps. (some col.), plates ; 20 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935...

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