The forgotten scholar : : Georg Zoëga (1755-1809) : at the dawn of Egyptology and Coptic studies / / edited by Karen Ascani, Paola Buzi and Daniela Picchi.

• Superior document: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 74
• TeilnehmendeR: Ascani, Karen,; Buzi, Paola,; Picchi, Daniela,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; Volume 74.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 pages) :; illustrations (some color), photographs.
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 Georg Koës and Zoëga’s Manuscripts Preserved in The Royal Library in Copenhagen /; 2 Relics of a Friendship. Objects from Georg Zoëga’s Estate in Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen /; 3 Georg Zoëga in lettere /; 4 Georg Zoëga und Christian Gottlob Heyne /; 5 Zoëga e la filologia /; 6 Georg Zoëga as Art Critic /; 7 An Antiquarian Depicted. The Visual Reception of Georg Zoëga /; 8 Georg Zoëga and Friedrich Münter. The Significance of Their Relationship /; 9 Zoëga studente di numismatica. Il soggiorno a Vienna (1782) e i contatti con Joseph Eckhel /; 10 Zoëga, pionnier de la numismatique alexandrine /; 11 On the Origins of an Egyptologist /; 12 In visita alla ‘Grande Galleria’: l’antico Egitto a Firenze /; 13 The Egyptian Antiquities in Bologna and Venice at Zoëga’s Time /; 14 Georg Zoëga and the Borgia Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: Cataloguing as a Method /; 15 A Concealed Attempt at Deciphering Hieroglyphs /; 16 “Covered with the Rust of Egyptian Antiquity”: Thomas Ford Hill and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphs /; 17 De origine et usu obeliscorum: Some Notes on an Eighteenth-century Egyptological Study /; 18 Gli studi copti fino a Zoëga /; 19 Chénouté et Zoëga : l’auteur majeur de la littérature copte révélé par le savant danois /; 20 The Catalogus codicum copticorum manu scriptorum qui in Museo Velitris adservantur. Genesis of a masterpiece /; 21 Il collezionismo di orientalia nella Roma di Pio vi /; 22 Georg Zoëga e gli scavi nel territorio laziale /; 23 Friederike Brun, Elisa von der Recke and Georg Zoëga: Members of the ‘Universitas of Rome’ /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004290834
• ISSN: 1566-2055
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Karen Ascani, Paola Buzi and Daniela Picchi.

Renowned for his work within the fields of Numismatics, Archaeology, Egyptology and Coptic studies, Georg Zoëga was a figure of outstanding importance both in Rome and in Europe, at the end of the eighteenth century. Although highly valued by his contemporaries, Zoëga’s scientific legacy fell almost entirely into oblivion with the end of the Enlightenment. The Forgotten Scholar: Georg Zoëga (1755-1819): At the Dawn of Egyptology and Coptic Studies represents an exceptional occasion to rediscover the largely unknown scientific legacy of this Danish scholar consisting of hundreds of letters, drawings, sketches, notes, and other documents, mainly preserved in the Royal Library and in the Thorvaldsen Museum of Copenhagen.