Charles Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and
Humanities, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, has started a wonderful blog entitled
"The History of the Study of Antiquity through the Lens of
Autobiography". The blog, according to its author's words, is "a component
of a research project initiated by Charles E. Jones, ... , who has a long standing interest in the history of
the study of the Ancient Near East and Egypt, and of old world Antiquity more
generally. This blog will present the working bibliography of the project, and
provide a platform for comment and discussion of autobiographical writing by
students and scholars of the ancient world."
Jones also hopes that he will also "develop a
venue for the publication of new autobiographical essays in the form of an
online open access periodical".
The idea behind the project and the blog is amazing.
Except for Taha Hussein's
autobiography " The
Days", which is available now in English from AUC press (2001), I
don't know how many autobiographies of Arabic scholars of Altertumswissenschaften
do we have, but I hope the project and the blog will include them. I would also
recommend adding his book "The
Future of Culture in Egypt", translated into English by Sidney
Glazer and published by American Council of Learned Societies, 1954, to the
working bibliography of the project/blog.
To see the blog follow this link: http://antiqauto.blogspot.de/
