The Life of J. D. Åkerblad

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xlviii, 455 pp., incl. 35 color illustrations & 80 b/w illustrations

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BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Fredrik Thomasson, Ph.D. (2009) in History, European University Institute, Florence, is a Research Fellow at Uppsala University. He has recently published a number of articles on eighteenth century history, e.g. in the International Journal of Cultural Property, Lychnos and several anthologies.

Readership

Those interested in the decipherment of the hieroglyphs, the history of Egyptology and classical studies, as well as those following the debate on ‘orientalism’ and the history of oriental studies.

List of Figures, Tables and Plates
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction

Part I – The making of a diplomat and orientalist
1. Family and education
2. Constantinople – city of rumours
3. Diplomacy and intrigue
4. Travel in the East
5. War in Egypt
6. Mixing East and West
7. “The sabre in one hand and the Koran in the other”

Part II – 1789–1801: Revolution and turmoil
8. Return to Europe
9. To Constantinople and back
10. “A dangerous man of Enlightenment”
11. The Roman Republic 1798–99
12. Final year in Sweden

Part III – Reading Egyptian: deciphering the Rosetta inscriptions
13. “I am alive only in Paris”
14. Åkerblad’s Rosetta Lettre
15. Geographic competition
16. Egyptology and orientalism

Part IV – The Napoleonic wars and Restoration in Italy
17. Book thefts, inkblots and French expropriations
18. Antiquarian in Rome
19. Salons and belle amiche
20. Curses and cabals
21. Oriental Rome
22. Archaeology and art
23. French defeat
24. Digging with the Duchess of Devonshire
25. “Despised by Sweden and by every Swede”

Conclusion
References
Indexes

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