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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Karen Ascani , Paola Buzi and Daniela Picchi -- 1 Georg Koës and Zoëga’s Manuscripts Preserved in The Royal Library in Copenhagen / Ivan Boserup -- 2 Relics of a Friendship. Objects from Georg Zoëga’s Estate in Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen / Kristine Bøggild Johannsen -- 3 Georg Zoëga in lettere / Karen Ascani -- 4 Georg Zoëga und Christian Gottlob Heyne / Daniel Graepler -- 5 Zoëga e la filologia / Alessandro Bausi -- 6 Georg Zoëga as Art Critic / Jesper Svenningsen -- 7 An Antiquarian Depicted. The Visual Reception of Georg Zoëga / Anne Haslund Hansen -- 8 Georg Zoëga and Friedrich Münter. The Significance of Their Relationship / Tobias Fischer-Hansen -- 9 Zoëga studente di numismatica. Il soggiorno a Vienna (1782) e i contatti con Joseph Eckhel / Daniela Williams and Bernhard Woytek -- 10 Zoëga, pionnier de la numismatique alexandrine / Laurent Bricault -- 11 On the Origins of an Egyptologist / Thomas Christiansen -- 12 In visita alla ‘Grande Galleria’: l’antico Egitto a Firenze / Maria Cristina Guidotti -- 13 The Egyptian Antiquities in Bologna and Venice at Zoëga’s Time / Daniela Picchi -- 14 Georg Zoëga and the Borgia Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: Cataloguing as a Method / Rosanna Pirelli and Stefania Mainieri -- 15 A Concealed Attempt at Deciphering Hieroglyphs / Paul John Frandsen -- 16 “Covered with the Rust of Egyptian Antiquity”: Thomas Ford Hill and the Decipherment of Hieroglyphs / Patricia Usick -- 17 De origine et usu obeliscorum: Some Notes on an Eighteenth-century Egyptological Study / Emanuele M. Ciampini -- 18 Gli studi copti fino a Zoëga / Tito Orlandi -- 19 Chénouté et Zoëga : l’auteur majeur de la littérature copte révélé par le savant danois / Anne Boud’hors -- 20 The Catalogus codicum copticorum manu scriptorum qui in Museo Velitris adservantur. Genesis of a masterpiece / Paola Buzi -- 21 Il collezionismo di orientalia nella Roma di Pio vi / Beatrice Palma Venetucci -- 22 Georg Zoëga e gli scavi nel territorio laziale / Beatrice Cacciotti -- 23 Friederike Brun, Elisa von der Recke and Georg Zoëga: Members of the ‘Universitas of Rome’ / Adelheid Müller -- Index.