Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich: Ideology, Scholarship, and Individual Biographies - Paperback

Thomas Schneider is Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia. After studying Egyptology at Zurich, Basel, and Paris, he was a Research Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Basel and Holder of the Chair in Egyptology at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Egyptian History, Near Eastern Archaeology and of the series Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. His contribution to this volume is part of a major research project on the history of Egyptology in Nazi Germany.

Peter Raulwing studied Historical Comparative Linguistics, Indo-Iranian Languages and Near Eastern Archaeology at the Universities of Bonn, Cologne and Saarbrücken. He has since become an authority in the area of horses and chariotry in the Ancient Near East, and adjacent areas, as well as the history of their modern scholarship. His publications include Horses, Chariots and Indo-Europeans (Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2000), an edited volume of Select Writings of M.A. Littauer and J.H. Crouwel (Brill, 2002), studies on ancient hippology, and the Scythians and their reception from antiquity until modern times. He is currently working on a Bibliographie Raisonnée on the Indo-Aryans in the Ancient Near East based on the works of Manfred Mayrhofer to be published with Brill.