{"id":355442,"date":"2010-02-23T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-7115393609736043695"},"modified":"2010-02-23T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:32:11","slug":"who-the-heck-is-herwart-von-hohenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355442","title":{"rendered":"Who the Heck is Herwart von Hohenburg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/bookpatrol\/archives\/195257.asp?from=blog_last3\">Seattle pi <\/a>(Stephen J. Gertz)<\/p>\n<p>With some excellent illustrations.  Thanks very much to David Petersen for the link.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">No copies have come to auction within the last thirty-five years. OCLC\/KVK note only seven copies in institutional collections worldwide, only one of which is complete, in the Biblioth\u00e9que National &#8211; France. But a complete copy recently appeared out of nowhere and into the marketlace, unheralded, without fanfare.<\/p>\n<p>The book is Thesaurus Hieroglyphicorum, published in 1610 by Johann (aka Hans) Georg Herwart von Hohenburg (1554-1622). It is one of the earliest works on Egyptology.<\/p>\n<p>It is a book that profoundly influenced Athanasius Kircher, one of the most fascinating individuals of the seventeenth &#8211; or any other &#8211; century.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-7115393609736043695?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle pi (Stephen J. Gertz) With some excellent illustrations. Thanks very much to David Petersen for the link. No copies have come to auction within the last thirty-five years. OCLC\/KVK note only seven copies in institutional collections worldwide, only one of which is complete, in the Biblioth\u00e9que National &#8211; France. But a complete copy recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}