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Maspero
People with the name Maspero include: *François Maspero (1932–2015), French author and journalist *Gaston Maspero (1846–1916), French Egyptologist *Georges Maspero (1872–1942), French sinologist, son of Gaston *Henri Maspero (1882–1945), French sinologist, son of Gaston *Jean Maspero (1885–1915), French papyrologist, son of Gaston *Riccardo Maspero (born 1970), Italian footballer Other uses *Maspero television building, Cairo, Egypt * Maspero demonstrations, demonstrations by Egyptian Copts in 2011 * Éditions Maspero, Paris publishing house founded by François Maspero {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Maspero
Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist and director general of excavations and antiquities for the Egyptian government. Widely regarded as the foremost Egyptologist of his generation, he began his career teaching Egyptian language in Paris becoming a professor at the Collège de France. In 1880, he led an archaeological mission to Egypt, which later became the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale. In 1881, Maspero's investigation led to the discovery of a hidden tomb near Dayr al-Baḥrī, containing 40 mummies, including pharaohs Seti I, Amenhotep I, Thutmose III, and Ramses II. His study of these findings was published in (1889). After a brief period in Paris, he returned to Egypt to organize a vast collection of antiquities at a museum in Cairo's Būlāq district, which later became the foundation of the Egyptian Museum established in 1902. During his second tenure as director general (1899–1914), Maspero re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Maspero
François Maspero (19 January 1932, in Paris – 11 April 2015, in Paris) was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad, Mehdi Ben Barka, and John Reed, author of ''Ten Days that Shook the World'', among others. He was awarded the Prix Décembre in 1990 for ''Les Passagers du Roissy-Express''. Biography François Maspero was born in 1932.Author biography in ''Cat's Grin'' (London: Penguin, 1988) His youth was marked by the cultural environment of his family, several of whom were noted scholars, and his parents' participation in the Resistance. His father, Henri Maspero, a sinologist and professor at the Collège de France, died at Buchenwald, but his mother survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp. His grandfather, Gaston Maspero, who died before his birth, was a famous Egyptologist. François Maspero opened a book store in the Latin Quarter in 1955, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Maspero
Riccardo Maspero (born 19 February 1970) is an Italian former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, and now a head coach. Club career Maspero's career came to prominence most notably with his time at then-Serie A club Cremonese, with whom he started playing professionally and played in two one-year spells in the Italian top flight. He came into his own during the promotion season of 1992–93 and impressed greatly in a side coached by Luigi Simoni which finished 10th in Serie A during the 1993–94 season. He established a reputation as a gifted playmaker. A move to Sampdoria followed, but he failed to make his mark and returned to Cremonese after one season. Despite outstanding form and a healthy return of goals from midfield, he was unable to prevent successive relegations. His career declined after a move to Lecce in 1997, where he found opportunities limited; the club were relegated to Serie B at the end of the season. He was loaned to Vicenza and Perugia, pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Maspero
Henri Paul Gaston Maspero (15 December 188317 March 1945) was a French sinologist and professor who contributed to a variety of topics relating to East Asia. Maspero is best known for his pioneering studies of Daoism. He was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II and died in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Life and career Henri Maspero was born on 15 December 1883 in Paris, France. His father, Gaston Maspero, was a famous French Egyptologist who was of Italian ancestry. After studies in history and literature, in 1905 he joined his father in Egypt and later published the study ''Les Finances de l'Egypte sous les Lagides''. After returning to Paris in 1907, he studied the Chinese language under Édouard Chavannes and law at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. In 1908 he went to Hanoi, studying at the École française d'Extrême-Orient. In 1918 he succeeded Édouard Chavannes as the chair of Chinese at the Collège de France. He published his monu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maspero Demonstrations
The Maspero Massacre initially started as demonstrations in October 2011 by a group dominated by Egyptian Copts in reaction to the demolition of a church in Upper Egypt claimed to be built without the appropriate license. The peaceful protesters who intended to stage a sit-in in front of the Maspiro television building were attacked by security forces and the army, resulting in 24 deaths, mostly among the Coptic protestors, and 212 injuries, most of which were sustained by Copts. Demonstration The peaceful protesters gathered in peaceful chants, angered by a statement made publicly by Aswan's governor, Mustafa Kamel el-Sayyed, who, after the destruction of the church in Aswan, denied the existence of the church, and then later retracted his statements, and claimed instead that the construction of the church was illegal. It was later revealed that extremist followers of the Salafist Islamic sect had pronounced threats and made demands for Aswan's Christian congregation not to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Maspero
Jean Maspero (20 December 1885 – 17 February 1915) was an early 20th-century French papyrologist. He was the son of egyptologist Gaston Maspero and his wife ''née'' Louise d'Estournelles de Constant (sister of Paul d'Estournel de Constant, winner of the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize) and brother of Henri and Georges Maspero. Works *1912: Organisation militaire de l'Égypte Byzantine', In-8, 157 p. (Paris, ) *1914: Horapollon et la fin du paganisme égyptien', Bulletin de l‘Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes c ..., n° 11, (p. 163–195). *1916: Papyrus grecs d'époque Byzantine', Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes, imprimerie de l‘Institut français d'archéologie orientale, * *1932: Fouilles exécutées ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maspero Television Building
The Maspero ( ) is the headquarters of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union, Egypt's state television broadcaster. It is located on the bank of the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt. History Gamal Abdel Nasser, the President of the United Arab Republic (of which Egypt was then a part) ordered the construction of the building in August 1959. The first broadcast from Maspero commenced on 21 July 1960 with the country's introduction of television on the eighth anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. It was built on an area of 12,000 square metres, with a budget of . The building was named after the French archaeologist Gaston Maspero, who was the chairman of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority. In October 2011, the Egyptian Army and state security forces killed 26 people—of whom at least 21 were Copts Copts (; ) are a Christians, Christian ethnoreligious group, ethnoreligious group native to Northeast Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Eg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Maspero
René Gaston Georges Maspero (21 August 1872 – 21 September 1942) was a French sinologist. He was the son of egyptologist Gaston Maspero and half brother of sinologist Henri Maspero. A colonial governor of French Indochina, he was appointed résident-mayor of Haiphong, then acting resident superior (15 April 1920 – 6 December 1920)He held this office during the absence of Marius François Baudoin, the actual incumbent. of Cambodia. He subsequently chaired the restructured Banque Industrielle de Chine following its bankruptcy in 1921. He was among the founders of the École française d'Extrême-Orient The French School of the Far East (, ; also translated as The French School of Asian StudiesPreferred translation by EFEO staff. SeEFEO official website), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of ... (EFEO). Publications *1894''Tableau chronologique des souverains de l'Annam'', E. J. Brill*1905''Starynna istorii︠a︡ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
