George Gliddon

George Gliddon

George Robins Gliddon (1809-1857) was an American Egyptologist, born in Devonshire, England. His father, a merchant, was United States consul at Alexandria, and there Gliddon was taken at an early age.

He became United States vice-consul, and took a great interest in Egyptian antiquities. Subsequently he lectured in the United States and succeeded in rousing considerable attention to the subject of Egyptology generally. He died at Panama in 1857.

His chief work was "Ancient Egypt" (1850, ed. 1853). He wrote also "Memoir on the Cotton of Egypt" (1841); "Appeal to the Antiquaries of Europe on the Destruction of the Monuments of Egypt" (1841); "Discourses on Egyptian Archaeology" (1841); "Types of Mankind" (1854), in conjunction with J. C. Nott and others; and "Indigenous Races of the Earth" (1857), also in conjunction with Nott and others.

See also

*Scientific racism
*Craniometry

References

*1911


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