Hermann Grapow, Egyptology, and National Socialist Initiatives for the Humanities
Thomas Schneider how Egyptology came to play a significant role in advancing Nazi ideology. He provides a carefully documented case study about Hermann Grapow, Professor of Egyptology in Berlin and a senior administrator at both the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the University of Berlin during th...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
2022
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The betrayal of the humanities
Year: 2022, Pages: 263-305 |
| Further subjects: | B
Humboldt-Universität Berlin
B National Socialism B Egyptology B Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften B Grapow, Hermann B Collaboration B Third Reich B Antisemitism B History 1933-1945 B Germany B Prussian Academy of Sciences |
| Summary: | Thomas Schneider how Egyptology came to play a significant role in advancing Nazi ideology. He provides a carefully documented case study about Hermann Grapow, Professor of Egyptology in Berlin and a senior administrator at both the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the University of Berlin during the years 1938–1945. Schneider demonstrates the important role played by leading academics in shaping the humanities in the Third Reich in ways that advanced Nazi racial theory. Schneider stresses the interplay between the politics of Nazi higher education and various individual disciplines of the humanities. Through his ambition, Grapow rose to the positions of Vice President and Acting President of the Academy, and became Dean, Vice President, and Acting President of the University. Hermann Grapow, the leader of German Egyptology, emerges as an opportunist who (ab)used the field to further his own career, and who intended to determine the discipline’s course and discourse in a post-war Nazi Germany. |
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| ISBN: | 0253060796 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The betrayal of the humanities
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