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THE late Prof. Edouard Naville, who died recently at Geneva in his eighty-third year, was a typical representative of the older generation of Egyptologists. The son of a distinguished Genevese family, of strong Evangelical tenets, he came to England when young to study at King's College, London, and here imbibed the liking for England and all things English that was characteristic of him through life. He went on to Bonn, and later studied Egyptology under Lepsius. He and Maspero both began their scientific work at the same time, round about the year 1870. In spite of great differences of temperament and style, their work shows resemblances characteristic of their time, especially in purely archaeological matters; neither was able quite to enter into the spirit of the newer science of archaeology or to understand its insistence on the importance of small things equally with great. The men of that generation thought only of great, beautiful, and fine things, and could see nothing of importance in a bead or a scarab. They were scholars and connoisseurs, not anthropologists.
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HALL, H. Prof. Edouard Naville. Nature 118, 703–704 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118703a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118703a0