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The Forgotten Scholar: Georg Zoega (1755-1819): At the Dawn of Egyptology and Coptic Studies offers an account on the largely unknown legacy of this Danish scholar, renowned for his work within the fields of Numismatics, Archaeology, Egyptology and Coptic Studies.

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Karen Ascani, M.A. (1969) University of Copenhagen. She has published articles on Georg Zoega and his time and is the editor (together with O. Andreasen ( )) of his Briefe und Dokumente II-V including an index which also covers volume I (1967) (University Press of Southern Denmark 2013). Paola Buzi, Ph.D (2002), is Assistant Professor of Egyptology and Coptic Culture at the Sapienza University of Rome. She combines the study of Coptic literature and codicology with the field work in the Fayyum and Asyut. She has published several monographs and articles in reviewed journals, including some catalogues of Coptic manuscripts. Daniela Picchi, board-member of CIPEG - ICOM (2013), is Head of the Egyptian Collection at the Archaeological Museum of Bologna (2006). She combines the museological activities with the study of the history of collecting as well as field work at Saqqara. She has published several monographs and articles, as well as exhibition catalogues.

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