Evaristo Breccia

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Annibale Evaristo Breccia (18 July 1876, Offagna - 28 July 1967, Rome) was an Italian egyptologist, the second director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria and rector of the University of Pisa. [1] [2]

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Early life and studies

He was born in Offagna to Cesare Breccia and Angela Gatti. He graduated in 1900 from the University of Rome with a degree on ancient history. [3]

Career

Breccia founded in 1893, together with other scholars, the Archaeological Society of Alexandria. From 1 April 1904 to 29 October 1932 he was the director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria where he succeeded Giuseppe Botti. [4] [5] [3] He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

In 1903 he excavated in Hermopolis Magna under Ernesto Schiaparelli. [3] Additionally, he conducted excavations in a number of sites including Alexandria, Giza, Hermopolis, Fayum, Middle Egypt, Oxyrhynchus, El Hiba, Antinoe and Cyrene. He excavated until 1937 when a serious illness forced him to give up his excavations, that were continued by Sergio Donadoni. [6] In 1933 he was appointed professor of Greek and Roman history at the University of Pisa and between 29 October 1939 and 28 October 1941 he was the rector of the University. [3]

He is well known for his guides of Alexandria and the Greco-Roman Museum. [3]

Personal life

In 28 July 1967 Breccia died by suicide in Rome. [7] After his death his wife, Paolina Salluzzi, donated his archive to the University of Pisa. The archive includes his correspondence, his manuscripts such as notes, publication projects, excavation reports and photographs, drawings of monuments and finds, and photographic plates. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Calderini, Aristide (1966). "A. EVARISTO BRECCIA (18 luglio 1876 - 28 luglio 1967)". Aegyptus. 46 (3/4): 293–296. ISSN   0001-9046.
  2. ↑ "EVARISTO BRECCIA UN UOMO, UNA STORIA di Pier Roberto Del Francia". lamemoriadeiluoghi.regione.marche.it. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "BRECCIA, Evaristo in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-01-21.
  4. ↑ Reid, Donald M. (1996). "Cromer and the Classics: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Greco-Roman Past in Modern Egypt". Middle Eastern Studies. 32 (1): 1–29. ISSN   0026-3206.
  5. ↑ Stevenson, Alice (2019), "International, Colonial and Transnational Connections (1880–1950)", Scattered Finds, Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums, UCL Press, pp. 105–144, ISBN   978-1-78735-141-7 , retrieved 2023-01-21
  6. ↑ "L'Archivio Breccia".
  7. ↑ "Prof. Evaristo Breccia, 91, Italian Egyptologist, Is Dead". The New York Times. 1967-07-29. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-01-21.
  8. ↑ "SIUSA | Toscana - Breccia Evaristo". siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it. Retrieved 2023-01-21.
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