‎Benjamin Philip Frankfort‏‎ [I6363]‎, son of Hartog Frankfort and Johanna Bernhardina "Hanna Haas(Hebr.)" Haas‏. Born ‎17 Mar 1854 (17 Adar 5614) Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Holland, died ‎12 Mar 1938 (9 Adar II 5698) Amsterdam, Holland‎, age 83 years Married ‎17 Mar 1896 (3 Nisan 5656) NIEUWER-AMSTEL, age 42 years (married 41 years) to: ‎Mathilde Israels‏‎ [I14173]‎, age by marriage 29 or 30 years, daughter of Abraham Hartog Israels and Johanna VAN Biema‏. Born ‎1866 Amsterdam, Holland‎ Child: 1. ‎Henri Frankfort‏‎ [I14303]‎ Also known as: Hans Frankfort, born ‎24 Feb 1897 (22 Adar I 5657) Amsterdam, Holland Geboren voormiddag 6 uur, died ‎16 Jul 1954 (15 Tamuz 5714) LONDEN‎, age 57 years. Occupation: Egyptologist, Archeologist Biography Born in Amsterdam, Frankfort studied history at the University of Amsterdam and then moved to London, where in 1924, he took an MA under Sir Flinders Petrie at the University College. In 1927 he gained a Ph.D. from the University of Leiden. He married Henriette Groenwegen and later Enriqueta Harris. Between 1925 and 1929 Frankfort was the director of the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) of London at El-Amarna, Abydos and Armant. In 1929 he was invited by Henry Breasted to become Field Director of the Oriental Institute (OI) of Chicago expedition to Iraq. In 1937 Frankfort and Emil Kraeling identified a woman on the Burney Relief (c 1700BCE) as Lilith of later Jewish mythology, though this identification is now generally rejected. In 1939 he published what Mark Chavalas considers to be perhaps his most influential scholarly achievement "Cylinder Seals: A Documentary Essay on Ihe Art and Religion of the Ancient Near East" In a collaborative work with his wife, John A. Wilson and Thorkild Jacobsen he published "The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man" in 1946, an influential work on the nature of myth and reality. Frankfort published Kingship and the Gods in 1948, "a classic work" in the opinion of John Baines. In 1948 he became director of the Warburg Institute in London. Along with EA Wallis Budge, he was revolutionary for his time for suggesting that Egyptian civilization, culturally, religiously, and ethnically arose from an African, instead of an Asian base. He wrote 15 books and monographs and about 73 articles for journals about ancient Egypt, archaeology and cultural anthropology, especially on the religious systems of the Ancient Near East. Erik Hornung in his influential work "Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt, The One and the Many" acknowledged his debt to previous work done by Henri Frankfort. He died in London.

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"Family Page: Benjamin Philip Frankfort & Mathilde Israels." HuMo-genealogy - Yossi Beck Genealogy Pages (https://beck.org.il/humogen/birthday_images/include/glightbox/css/family/47/F10528?main_person=I6363 : accessed 01 November 2024) Benjamin Philip Frankfort #I6363, born ‎17 Mar 1854 (17 Adar 5614) Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Holland

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