Gustave Jéquier

Gustave Jéquier (* August 14, 1868 Neuchâtel, † March 24, 1946 ibid ) Swiss Egyptologist and 1912-1939 Professor at the University of Neuchâtel.

Jéquier studied with Adolf Erman in Berlin and Gaston Maspero in Paris. He has worked in Egypt for the Institut français d' archéologie orientale in Cairo. The focus of his excavations at Saqqara was. He introduced, inter alia, 12 excavations to expose the located there pyramid of Pharaoh Pepi II by. His research interests were in the field of architecture and religion of ancient Egypt. Less known is the fact that he is one of the pioneers of Iranian archeology. He took part in the years 1897-1902 in a campaign of a French research group Jacques de Morgan in Iran today. From this he had worked during his first stay in Egypt in 1892. Around the turn of the year 1901/1902 Jéquier discovered in a cave in Susa three parts of a broken Dioritsäule with elamitischer cuneiform. These were around today in the Louvre kept Codex Hammurabi.

He was awarded the title of Officer of the Legion d' honneur.

Works

  • Memoir sur les fouilles de light, 1902
  • Le Papyrus Prisse et ses variant, Paris 1911
  • Décoration égyptienne. Ceilings et frises végétales du Nouvel Empire thebaine (1400 x 1000 avant. J.-C. ), Paris 1911
  • Les Temples memphites et thebaine of the origines à la fin de la XVIIIe dynasty, Paris 1920
  • Matériaux pour servir à l' établissement d'un Dictionnaire d' Archéologie égyptienne, 1921
  • L'architecture et la décoration dans l' ancienne égyptienne, 1921-1924
  • Les Temples Ramessides Saites et de la XIX 'a la XXX dynasty. Morance, Paris 1922
  • Manuel d' archéologie égyptienne, 1924
  • Le Mastabat Faraoun, Cairo 1928
  • La pyramide d' Oudjebten, Cairo 1928
  • Deux pyramid du moyen empire, Cairo 1932
  • Les pyramides of pure Neit et Apouit, Cairo 1933
  • La pyramide d' Aba, 1935
  • Rapport sur ​​les travaux préliminaire Executes en dans la partie 1935-1936 méridionale de la nécropole Memphite, Cairo 1936
  • Douze ans de fouilles dans la nécropole Memphite 1924-1936, Neuchâtel 1940
  • Deux pyramides du Moyen Empire, Cairo 1938
  • Le monument funéraire de Pepi II, Vol 3, Cairo 1936-40
  • De Perse, 1897-1902, Editions de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1968
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