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JOHANNES DUMICHEN (1833-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUMICHEN (1833-1894)  , See also:German Egyptologist, was See also:born near Grossglogau . He studied See also:philology and See also:theology in See also:Berlin and See also:Breslau . Subsequently he became a See also:pupil of See also:Lepsius and See also:Brugsch, and devoted himself to the study of See also:Egyptian See also:inscriptions . He travelled widely in See also:Egypt, and published his results in a number of important books . In 1872 he was chosen See also:professor of Egyptology at See also:Strassburg . The value of his See also:work consists not only in the stores of material which he collected, but also in the success with which he dealt with many of the problems raised by the inscriptions . Among his See also:works are Bauurkunde See also:des Tempels von See also:Dendera (1865) ; Geographische Inschriften altagyptischer Denkmaler (4 vols., 1865-'885); Altagyptische Kalenderinschriften (1866) ; Altagypt . Ternpelinschriften (2 vols., 1867) ; Historische Inschriften altagypt . Denkmaler (2 vols., 1867-1869) ; Baugeschichte and Beschreibung des Denderatempets (Strassburg, 1877); See also:Die Oasen der libyschen See also:Waste (1878) ; Die kalendarischen Opferfestlisten von Medinet-Habu (1881); Gesch. des See also:alien Aegypten (1878-1883); Der Grabpalast des Patuamenap in der thebanischen Nekropolis (1884-1894) .

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