Max Uhlemann, in full Maximilian Adolph Uhlemann (died 1862) was a German Egyptologist who in 1853 published the third

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inscription. He was the son of Friedrich Gottlob Uhlemann, who taught theology at the universities of

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. Max Uhlemann's research at

, where he initially studied history and archaeology and eventually specialised in ancient Egypt and its literature, led to a doctorate in 1851.

Gustav Seyffarth Gustav Seyffarth (13 July 179617 November 1885) was a German-American Egyptologist, born in Uebigau, in the Electorate of Saxony. He studied theology and philology at the University of Leipzig, obtaining his doctorate in 1823 with the thesis " ...

was among his teachers at Leipzig. In 1853, apart from his work on the Rosetta Stone, he also completed and published a Coptic grammar. From 1854 until his early death in 1862 he was a lecturer ('' Privatdozent'') in Egyptian language and literature at the Universität Göttingen. His ''Drei Tage in Memphis'' (1856) was an early attempt to describe everyday life in ancient Egypt for a general audience; an English translation, ''Three Days in Memphis'', appeared in 1858. This was followed by a historical novel, ''Der letzte der Ramessiden'' ("The Last of the Ramessids"), which ran to two editions in 1860 and 1863.

Works

*''De veterum Aegyptiorum lingua et litteris: sive de optima signa hieroglyphica explicandi via atque ratione''. Leipzig, 185
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*''Quae, qualia, quanta? Eine Bestätigung des ''Quousque tandem'' der Champollionischen Schule''. Berlin, 185
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*''Inscriptionis Rosettanae hieroglyphicae decretum sacerdotale''. Leipzig, 185
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*''Linguae Copticae grammatica''. Leipzig. 185
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*''Das Todtengericht bei den alten Ägyptern. Eine Habilitations-Rede''. Berlin, 1854 *''Thoth nach klassischen und aegyptischen Quellen, oder Die Wissenschaften der alten Aegypter''. Göttingen 185
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*''Israeliten und Hyksos in Aegypten: Eine historisch-krit. Untersuchung''. Leipzig, 185
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*''Drei Tage in Memphis'', Göttingen 185
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**''Three Days in Memphis''. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 185
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*''Handbuch der gesammten ägyptischen Alterthumskunde''. Leipzig, 1857-5
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*''Grundzüge der Astronomie und Astrologie der Alten besonders der Aegypter''. Leipzig, 185
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*"Über die Bildung der altägyptischen Eigennamen", in ''Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Classe der K. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien'' (1859
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*''Der letzte der Ramessiden oder Vor drei Jahrtausenden: Ein culturhistorischer Roman''. Leipzig, 1860 **2nd ed. ''Vor dreitausend Jahren oder der Untergang der Ramessiden: Ein culturhistorischer Roman''. Leipzig, 186
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