Institute of Oriental Studies, P.R.I.
Topic
Ancient Egypt in the Slovak culture in the period 1843–1918
PhD. program
World History
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Dušan Magdolen, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Arts, Comenius University
Annotation
The aim of this project is to collect, analyze and evaluate original written, pictorial and 3D source material from the period 1843–1945 by Slovak authors with an interest in ancient Egypt who lived in the mentioned period on the territory of today’s Slovakia in the former Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Czechoslovakia. This source material in any way associated with ancient Egypt or Egyptology may relate to history, art, architecture, correspondence, travel, collections, education, etc., and was publicly published/accessible/exhibited (magazines, newspapers, letters, literature, postcards, exhibition) or comes from private archives/collections/possessions. The existence of such material and its evaluation aim to document the diversity and extent of individual a societal interest in this ancient civilization in the Slovak culture of the mentioned historical period.