BREASTED, James Henry, American orientalist and historian: b. Rockford, Ill., 27 Aug. 1865. A.B. Northwestern College, 1888; studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary (particularly Hebrew), 1888-90; A.M. Yale, 1892; Ph.D. University of Berlin, 1894; hon. B.D. Chicago Theological Seminary, 1898; orientalist at University of Chicago since 1894; professor of Egyptology and Oriental history, director of the Haskell Oriental Museum, and chairman of the department of Oriental lan guages and literatures. Collecting for Uni versity of Chicago in Et, 1894-95; Thomas lecturer, Richmond College, 1897; was appointed (1900) on mission to the museums of Europe by the commission of Royal Academies of Germany (Berlin, Leipzig, Munich, Got tingen), to copy and arrange the Egyptian in scriptions in those museums in preparation for the Egyptian dictionary, for the completion of which the Academies were commissioned and endowed by the German Emperor; director of thetian Expedition, University of Chicago, corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1907. Morse lec turer Union Theological Seminary, 1912. As sistant editor American Journal of Semitic Languages. Vice-president of the American
Oriental Society, 1915-17; president of the Research Account (American Branch), ; member of the American Institute of Social Science. Author 'De Hymnis in Solem sub Rege Amenophide IV Conceptis' (1894); 'A New Chapter in the Life of Thutmose IIP (1900) ; 'Ancient Records of Egypt' (5 vols., 1905) ; 'A History of Egypt' (1905, 2d ed. 1909, German ed., 1911, French and Russian edi tions delayed by the War; edition for the blind, 1911) ; (Egypt Through the Stereoscope) (1905) ; 'The Battle of Kadesh' (1905) ; 'The Temples of Lower Nubia' (1906) 'A History of the Ancient Egyptians' (1908) ; 'The Monu ments of Sudanese Nubia' (1908) ; 'Develop ment of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt' (1912) ; 'A Short Ancient History' (1914) ; 'Ancient Times: A History of the Early World) (1916). Also articles in Zeit schrift Aegyptische Sprache; Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archeology, London; the American Journal of the Semitic Languages; The Nation; American Historical Review; Journal of the American Oriental Society.