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Frankfort, Henri, 1897-1954

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Personal name headingFrankfort, Henri, 1897-1954
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Variant(s)Frankfort, H. (Henri), 1897-1954
פרנקפורט, הנרי
فرانكفورت، هنري، 1897-1954
Associated countryNetherlands England United States
Associated placeLondon (England) Chicago (Ill.)
Birth date1897-02-24
Death date1954-07-16
Place of birthAmsterdam (Netherlands)
Place of deathLondon (England)
AffiliationUniversity of Chicago. Oriental Institute
Warburg Institute
Profession or occupationEgyptologists Archaeologists
University and college faculty members
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
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Found inStudies in early pottery in the Near East, 1924: title page (H. Frankfort)
Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, 1955: title page (H. Frankfort)
The birth of civilization in the Near East, 1950: title page (Henri Frankfort)
The art and architecture of the ancient Orient, 1955: title page (Henri Frankfort)
Ancient Egyptian religion, 1961: title page (H. Frankfort, Research Professor of Oriental Archaeology in the University of Chicago)
OCLC, December 29, 2014 (hdg.: Frankfort, Henri, 1897-1954; usage: Henri Frankfort, H. Frankfort)
English Wikipedia, viewed October 1, 2020 (Henri Frankfort; also "Hans" Frankfort; born February 24, 1897, in Amsterdam; died July 16, 1954, in London; Dutch Egyptologist, archaeologist and Orientalist; studied in Amsterdam and London; obtained his doctorate in 1927 at Leiden; in 1929, he was invited to be field director of the Iraq expedition of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute; in 1948, he became director of the Warburg Institute in London; he taught in London and in Chicago until his death in 1954)
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