George Andrew Reisner

George Andrew Reisner
George Andrew Reisner (1867-1942)
Born	November 5, 1867 Indianapolis, Indiana
Died	June 6, 1942 Giza, Egypt
Nationality	American
Fields	archaeology
Known for	Ancient Egypt

George Andrew Reisner (November 5, 1867 – June 6, 1942) was an American archaeologist of Ancient Egypt. He also served as the head football coach at Purdue University, coaching for one season in 1889 and compiling a record of 2–1.

He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and died in Giza, Egypt. Upon his studies at Jebel Barkal (The Holy Mountain), in Nubia he found the Nubian kings were not buried in the pyramids but outside of them. He also found the skull of a Nubian female (who he thought was a king) which is in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. Reisner believed that Kerma was originally the base of an Egyptian governor and that these Egyptian rulers evolved into the independent monarchs of Kerma. He also created a list of Egyptian viceroys of Kush. He found the tomb of Queen Hetepheres the mother of King Khufu (Cheops in Greek) who built the Great Pyramid at Giza. During this time he also explored mastabas.

Reisner's wife was Mary Bronson.

Timeline

• 1897–1899: Classified Egyptology collection of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
• 1899–1905: Led the Hearst Expedition of the University of California to explore burial grounds at and around Qift
• 1905: Edited The Hearst Medical Papyrus
• 1905–1914: Assistant professor of Egyptology at Harvard University
• 1907–1909: Directed archaeological survey of Nubia (Nilotic Sudan) for Egyptian government
• 1910–1942: Curator of Egyptian collections at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
• 1914–1942: Profess of Egyptology at Harvard University
• 1916–1923: Explored pyramids of Meroë, dug out temple at Napata
• 1931: Wrote Mycerinus (alternative name of Menkaure)
• 1942: Published final work, A History of the Giza Necropolis

Works

• Amulets. Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale. 1907. http://www.archive.org/details/amulets35reis.  (reprint ISBN 978-1-57898-718-4)
• Early dynastic cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. 1908. http://www.archive.org/details/earlydynasticcem01hearuoft. 
• The Egyptian conception of immortality. Cambridge: The Riverside Press (Houghton Mifflin). 1912. http://www.archive.org/details/egyptianconcepti00reisrich. 
• Excavations at Kerma. Cambridge: Peabody Museum of Harvard University. 1923.  (reprint ISBN 0-527-01028-6)
• Harvard excavations at Samaria, 1908-1910. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1924.  (with Clarence Stanley Fisher and David Gordon Lyon)
• Mycerinus, the temples of the third pyramid at Giza,. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1931. 
• The development of the Egyptian tomb down to the accession of Cheops. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1936. 
• A history of the Giza Necropolis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1942. 
• Canopics. Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale. 1967.  (completed by Mohammad Hassan Abd-ul-Rahman)

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Purdue Boilermakers (Independent) (1889)
1889	Purdue	2–1
Purdue:		2–1
Total:		2–1

References

• Reisner Biography
• "Reisner, George Andrew." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 11 Nov. 2005 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9063116>.

External links

• Works by George Reisner at Project Gutenberg
• G. A. Reisner at the College Football Data Warehouse