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Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (29 March 1879, Eltham
Eltham, London

Eltham is a district in the London Borough of Greenwich. It is a suburban development situated east south-east of Charing Cross. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, the population of the Eltham was 87,579....
  19 December 1963, Oxford
Oxford

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) was one of the premier British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 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
Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
 philology
Philology

Philology, derived from the Greek language considers both morphology and Meaning in linguistic expression, combining linguistics and literary studies....
 by Gardiner are his famous three editions of Egyptian Grammar
Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs

Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs was written by Alan Gardiner and first published in 1927 in London by the Oxford University Press....
 and its correlated list of all the Middle Egyptian
Middle Egyptian

Middle Egyptian is the typical form of the Egyptian language spoken from 2000 BC to 1300 BC .Although evolving into Late Egyptian from the 14th century, Middle Egyptian remained in use as literary standard language until the 4th century AD....
 hieroglyphs in Gardiner's Sign List
Gardiner's Sign List

Gardiner's Sign List is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner. It is considered a standard reference in the study of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs....
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Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (29 March 1879, Eltham
Eltham, London

Eltham is a district in the London Borough of Greenwich. It is a suburban development situated east south-east of Charing Cross. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, the population of the Eltham was 87,579....
  19 December 1963, Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
) was one of the premier British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 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
Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
 philology
Philology

Philology, derived from the Greek language considers both morphology and Meaning in linguistic expression, combining linguistics and literary studies....
 by Gardiner are his famous three editions of Egyptian Grammar
Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs

Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs was written by Alan Gardiner and first published in 1927 in London by the Oxford University Press....
 and its correlated list of all the Middle Egyptian
Middle Egyptian

Middle Egyptian is the typical form of the Egyptian language spoken from 2000 BC to 1300 BC .Although evolving into Late Egyptian from the 14th century, Middle Egyptian remained in use as literary standard language until the 4th century AD....
 hieroglyphs in Gardiner's Sign List
Gardiner's Sign List

Gardiner's Sign List is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner. It is considered a standard reference in the study of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs....
. 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 Charterhouse
Charterhouse School

Charterhouse, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in London Charterhouse, then Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse before Charterhouse School or more simply Charterhouse is a boys' independent school school between Hurtmore and Godalming in Surrey, England....
 and Queens College, Oxford.

Important 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).
  • "New Literary Works from Ancient Egypt", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
    Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

    The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology or JEA is a scientific journal containing scholarly articles and reviews of recent books of importance to Egyptology....
     1 (1914), 20-36 and 100-106.
  • . Paris, 1916
  • "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
    Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs

    Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs was written by Alan Gardiner and first published in 1927 in London by the Oxford University Press....
    . 3rd Ed., Rev. London: Oxford University Press, 1957 (1st edition 1927). ISBN 0-900416-35-1
  • "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.


See also

  • Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • Pharaoh
    Pharaoh

    Pharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt, only during the New Kingdom, specifically, during the middle of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt....
  • Margaret Gardiner
    Margaret Gardiner (artist)

    Margaret Gardiner was a radical modern British artist and resident of Hampstead, London, from 1932, where she was also a left wing political activist....
    , his daughter.
  • Gardiner's_Sign_List
    Gardiner's Sign List

    Gardiner's Sign List is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner. It is considered a standard reference in the study of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs....


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