Edward Frank Wente (born 1930) is an American
professor emeritus
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of
Egyptology
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and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the
University of Chicago
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.
[University of Chicago]
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Retrieved on 08-03-2009.[The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. (2009)]
Retrieved on 08-03-2009. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1959 and lectured there from 1963 to 1996.
He is also a longstanding member of the
Oriental Institute, Chicago
The Oriental Institute (OI), established in 1919, is the University of Chicago's interdisciplinary research center for ancient Near Eastern ("Orient") studies and archaeology museum. It was founded for the university by professor James Henry Brea ...
.
One of his major works is ''Letters from Ancient Egypt'' (1990), published by the Scholarly Press.
In 1999 the Oriental Institute published a collection of essays by Egyptologists in honor of Edward Wente'' "Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente''".
See also
*
List of Egyptologists
This is a partial list of Egyptologists. An Egyptologist is any archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities. Demotists are Egyptologists who special ...
References
Further references
*Wente, Edward F. (1990). ''Letters from Ancient Egypt''. Edited by Edmund S. Meltzer. Translated by Edward F. Wente. Atlanta: Scholars Press, Society of Biblical Literature. .
American Egyptologists
University of Chicago faculty
University of Chicago alumni
Living people
1930 births
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