Breasted, James Henry (1865-1935)

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Addams to Breasted 1-31-1914-page-001.jpg

Jane Addams to James Henry Breasted, January 31, 1914

James H. Breasted to Jane Addams, February 5, 1914

The Unexpected Reactions of a Traveler in Egypt, February 1914

The Unexpected Reactions of a Traveler in Egypt, February 1914 (draft)

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Birth Date

1865-08-28

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1935-12-02

Birthplace

Rockford, Illinois

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James Henry Breasted was a professor of history at the University of Chicago, specializing in Ancient Egypt and archaeology. He directed the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago and worked on an Egyptian dictionary and a transcribed collection of texts. He undertook a series of archaeological digs in Egypt and published a well regarded history, A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (1905).