Grdseloff Bernard

Bernard Grdseloff (Grdzelashvili) (1 July 1915, Cairo – 8 October 1950, same location), was ethnically Georgian Egyptologist.

He began his research at the Berlin Museum under the guidance of the renowned Egyptologist K. H. Sethe. He later worked in Cairo at the German Archaeological Institute with the famous Egyptologist L. Borchardt. In Egypt, he also served as the editorial secretary for the Society for Jewish Studies.

Grdseloff’s most important works (three monographs and more than thirty articles) focus on the embalming and purification of royal corpses in ancient Egypt, the development of the cult of Resheph, the stela of Pharaoh Seti I in Scythopolis, and other topics.

Several of his manuscript works are preserved in the Griffith Institute in England.

Literature: ჯ ა ფ ა რ ი ძ ე  გ., ბერნარდ გრდზელოვის გახსენება, გაზ. «სამშობლო», 1979, ნოემბ., №24; მისივე, ბერნარდ გრდზელოვი, გაზ. «კავკასიონი», 1995, ივნ., №24; Harari I., Bernhard Grdseloff, «Annales du Service des Antiquités de l"Egypte», t. 60, fasc. 1, Le Caire, 1951; Dawson W. R., Hill E. P., Who was who in Egyptology. Third revised ed. by M. L. Bierbier, L., 1995.

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