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Aleksandr Leopoldovich Kotseyovsky

1887 – 1919

Russian Egyptologist

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Lived 1887 – 1919 (aged 32). Aleksandr Leopoldovich Kotseyovsky was a Russian.

Aleksandr Leopoldovich Kotseyovsky (Russian: Александр Леопольдович Коцейовский; 2 January 1887 – 16 January 1919) was a Russian historian, philologist and Egyptologist, specialising in the history of the ancient Egyptian religion. A pupil of Boris Turayev, he graduated from Saint Petersburg State University in 1910, having also studied in Berlin, where he attended the lectures of Adolf Erman and Georg Christian Möller. He taught at Novorossiysk University. In 1913 he published "Призывания Исиды и Нефтиды" ("Invocation of Isis and Nephthys). In 1917 he produced what is still the only Russian translation of the Pyramid Texts, which included a detailed introduction; this formed his masters' dissertation for the University of Kharkiv. He planned to produce a six volume work on the Pyramid Texts, but his death from a fever in 1919 prevented this.

Major works Hieratic Section of Berlin Papyrus 3008: Invocation of Isis and Nephthys. Papers of the Classical Division of the Russian Archaeological Society, 1913, Vol. 7: 133–87. The Pyramid Texts, Odessa, 1917; Reprinted as edited by Chetverykhin, St Petersburg, Letny Sad, 2000.

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Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University
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Odesa University

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Russian Egyptologist

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Aleksandr Leopoldovich Kotseyovsky was born on 2 January 1887 in Chernihiv.

When did Aleksandr Leopoldovich Kotseyovsky die?

Aleksandr Leopoldovich Kotseyovsky died on 16 January 1919 in Znamianka.

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Aleksandr Leopoldovich Kotseyovsky was Russian.

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