Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1866-1937)

Title
Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1866-1937)
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Gerber, Albrecht
Editor
Editor(s): Mario Capasso
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Fabrizio Serra Editore
Place of publication
Pisa, Italy
Series
Biblioteca Degli Studi Di Egittologia E Di Papirologia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/27523
Abstract
In 1897, the Heidelberg University’s Ruperto-Carola Library was presented with an extraordinary opportunity to purchase a considerable number of valuable ancient texts, written on papyri, parchments, or wooden plates, in languages which included Arabic, Coptic, Demotic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian and Syriac. The acquisition came about primarily through the efforts of the University’s farsighted chief-librarian, Karl Zangenmeister (1837-1902), and was followed before the turn of the century by at least three more similar purchases. The budding papyri collection not only raised the University’s prestige, but also formed the basis on which its present world-class papyrus collection is founded.
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Citation
Hermae: Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology IV, v.4, p. 9-18
ISBN
9788862277525
9788862277570
9788862277532
9788842714422
8842714429
Start page
9
End page
18

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