The Most Prominent Dutchman in Egypt

Download or read book The Most Prominent Dutchman in Egypt written by Maarten J. Raven and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Herman Insinger was a well-known character in the history of Egyptology, mainly because his name has been linked forever with a famous demotic wisdom papyrus now in Leiden. Although he is mentioned by many of his contemporaries, biographical notes on Insinger rarely surpass a few lines and can be quite inaccurate. However, a lot of information can be gathered from the Archives of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden and other sources, both published and unpublished ones. These documents enable us to sketch a brief biography of this fascinating figure. Former studies by the present.