Allan Henderson Gardiner

Sir Allan Henderson Gardiner
Born	1879
Died	1963
Residence	Queen's College, Oxford 25 Tavistock Squrare, W. [1901] Worcester College, Oxford; Matthaikirchstrasse 11, Berlin, W [1906] Worcester College, Oxford [1911] 9 Lansdowne Road, Holland Park, W11 [1913] Court Place, Iffley, Oxford [1949]
Occupation	academic egyptologist linguist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1958.05.01 resigned, but see note elected_AI 1901.02.04 societies Egypt Exploration Society British Academy

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AI Council 1913 Member

House Notes

nominated 1901.01.22
1958.06.05 Sir Alan Gardiner had written to thank the Council for remitting his subscription. It was noted that the Journal should not be sent and that he might be asked to give his accumulated publications to the Institute if he no longer wished to retain them.

Notes From Elsewhere

Born Eltham, Kent; died Oxford. His father was chairman of the textile company Bradbury, Greatorex & Co and left him well off. His elder brother was the composer Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950). Spent most of the years 1902-11 away from UK on the continent and in Egypt. Held academic posts at Worcester College, Oxford and Manchester University 1912-22, but being independently wealth, he avoided all academic posts thereafter. Moved to live in Court Place, Iffley, Oxford in 1947. Knighted 1948. Honorary degrees from Durham and Cambridge, and honorary fellow of Queen’s, Oxford
Served as Egyptian Exploration Society President
Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (29 March 1879, in Eltham – 19 December 1963, in Oxford) was an English Egyptologist, linguist, philologist, and independent scholar. He is regarded as one of the premier Egyptologists of the early and mid-20th century. Some of his most important publications include a 1959 book on his study of "The Royal Canon of Turin" and his seminal 1961 work Egypt of the Pharaohs, which covered all aspects of Egyptian chronology and history at the time of publication.
Two major contributions to ancient Egyptian philology by Gardiner are his famous three editions of Egyptian Grammar and its correlated list of all the Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs in Gardiner's Sign List. Publishing Egyptian Grammar produced one of the few available hieroglyphic printing fonts.
In 1915 Gardiner was also able to crack the so-called Proto-Sinaitic writing system by deciphering the "B'alat inscriptions".
He was educated at Temple Grove School, Charterhouse, and Queen's College, Oxford; he was later a student of the famous egyptologist Kurt Heinrich Sethe in Berlin.[1]

Publications

External Publications

The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic Papyrus in Leiden (Pap. Leiden 334 recto). Leipzig, 1909 (reprint Hildesheim - Zürich - New York, 1990).
A Topographical Catalogue of the Private Tombs of Thebes, with Arthur E.P. Weigall, London, Bernard Quaritch, 1913 (read online). "New Literary Works from Ancient Egypt", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1 (1914), 20-36 and 100-106.
Notes on the story of Sinuhe, Paris, Librairie Honoré Champion, 1916 (Read online, Kelvin Smith Library).
"The Tomb of a much-travelled Theban Official", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 4 (1917), 28-38.
"On Certain Participial Formations in Egyptian", Rev. ég. N.S. 2/1-2 (1920), 42-55. "The Eloquent Peasant", JEA 9 (1923), 5-25. Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, 3rd Ed., pub. Griffith Institute, Oxford, 1957 (1st edition 1927), ISBN 0-900416-35-1
The Theory of Speech and Language, 1932 "The Earliest Manuscripts of the Instruction of Amenemmes I", Mélanges Maspero I.2, 479-496. 1934
Ancient Egyptian Onomastica. Vol. I—III. London, 1947.
The Ramesseum Papyri. Plates (Oxford 1955) The Theory of Proper Names: A Controversial Essay. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.