Word: orientalistes
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...could perform. It published an elaborate catalog illustrating each piece with a full-page plate and giving a scholarly introduction to each section of the catalog. These were not prepared by the Buffalo Museum's staff but by leading authorities in the U. S. on each particular field. Orientalist Arthur Upham Pope wrote on Persian bronzes, the Metropolitan's Gisela M. A. Richter covered those of Greece and Rome, Art Dealer Stephan Bourgeois wrote on modern bronzes...
Born in France, Monsignor Tisserant was an eminent Orientalist by the time his nation called him to war. He fought at the Marne, at the Dardanelles, finally became an officer on the French General Staff in Palestine. Associated with the Vatican Library since 1908, he visited the U. S. in 1927 and 1933, returned to reorganize the library with U. S. cataloging and the finest modern equipment...
...dark, serious young man named John Albert Wilson went to Chicago to study under the famed Orientalist. Born in Pawling, N. Y., he had graduated from Princeton, got a teaching job at American University in Beirut, Syria, grew so fond of visiting archeological sites in his rattletrap automobile that he once had to walk the 18 miles from Bab to Aleppo in pitch darkness because in his eagerness to be off he had not properly strapped on his spare gasoline supply. After John Wilson got Chicago's Ph. D. in Egyptology, Breasted sent him on an expedition to Luxor...
...hovered anxiously around, a gang of Royal Marines slowly carried ashore 93 brass-trimmed steel trunks. In those trunks were 21,000 separate pieces of imperial Manchu treasure which, lent by the Nanking Government, were leaving China for the first time in history. To help assemble them, the great Orientalist and retired importer George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy's sedate Burlington House, along with other Chinese treasures from collections in the U. S., France, Holland, Sweden, Germany...
Died. James Henry Breasted, 70, famed Orientalist, founder and head of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute; of a hemolytic streptococcic infection; in Manhattan. Finds and ever more finds all over the Near East persuaded him that Egypt was the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of human conscience, whose origin and development he traced. When he was carried ill from the Conte di Savoia last week the Press revived the mythical "Curse of the Pharaohs" (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), recalled that Oldster Breasted last year snorted: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. For two weeks I slept...