Ægyptologist

English

Noun

Ægyptologist (plural Ægyptologists)

1. Obsolete form of Egyptologist.
   • 1845 September 1, Edw. Hincks, “Chevalier Bunsen.—A Challenge.”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. for the Year 1845. […], number 1495, London: […] Robson, Levey, and Franklin, […], published 13 September 1845, page 607, column 2:

     If, however, any two or three gentlemen, whose general knowledge of languages and of their analogies is such as to qualify them for the office, will undertake to be judges, I am ready to meet any Ægyptologist of the Coptic school whom Chevalier Bunsen may select, and to submit our respective systems of explaining old Egyptian texts to their decision.

   • 1850 January, “The Races of Man, and their Geographical Distribution. By Charles Pickering, […].”, in The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, number IX, part second (Bibliographical Notices), pages 239–240:

     It is rather curious to find him thus (in conformity with the idea of the essential inferiority of the Negro races, which is unfortunately not only entertained as a matter of speculation, but practically acted on in the United States) fundamentally isolating the African races from the Asiatic, at the very time when the most distinguished Ægyptologists are coming to the conclusion, that the Egyptian race, which was decidedly African in its physical conformation, was derived from an Asiatic stock, as seems proved by the glottological researches of Bunsen and others.

   • 1852, Charles Kraitsir, “Sounds and Letters”, in Glossology: Being a Treatise on the Nature of Language and on the Language of Nature, New York, N.Y.: […] George P. Putnam, […], page 84:

     Warburton believed to have found the origin, and to have traced the progress of symbolic figures, as they gradually became letters. His supposition was correct, but he had no means of proving it so clearly as later Ægyptologists have done.

   • 1852, W[illia]m T. Hamilton, “Populousness of the Earth in the Days of Cain, and the Longevity of the Ancient Patriarchs”, in The “Friend of Moses;” or, A Defence of the Pentateuch as the Production of Moses and an Inspired Document, Against the Objections of Modern Skepticism, New York, N.Y.: […] M. W. Dodd, […], pages 291–292:

     For instances of varying interpretations of the monumental hieroglyphics, among even the ablest Ægyptologists, Champollion, Rosellini, &c., […]