DOI Artikel:
Elżbieta Dąbrowska-Smektała 1930 - 2000
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OBITUARY
Elzbieta D^browska-Smektala
1930-2000
All her scholarly life Egyptologist Elzbieta Dgbrowska-Smektala, who died on February 13, 2000,
was connected with Warsaw University. She received her MA degree from the Philological Faculty,
Oriental Institute in 1959 and embarked forthwith upon an academic career, briefly in the Institute
of Papyrolog and then for the better part of thirty years in the Egyptological Section. Apart from lec-
turing and developing her academic studies, she took a strong interest in extending the modest library
resources of the department.
In 1963-1966 she joined the team directed by Prof. Kazimierz Michalowski to work on the
reconstruction of the temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahan and the excavation of the neighboring
temple of Tuthmosis III. She also worked with the Polish archaeological teams on Kom el-Dikka in
Alexandria and at Fell Atrib in the Nile Delta. Her objective was to prepare for publication the
hieroglyphic texts on coffins and the hieratic papyri. She also assisted the recently demised conserva-
tor Jozef Gazy in the taking down of the wall paintings from the Cathedral at Faras in Sudan.
Having received a scholarship from the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies in Leiden she spent a year
in 1972 in Holland. In 1981 she was back again in Egypt.
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Elzbieta D^browska-Smektala
1930-2000
All her scholarly life Egyptologist Elzbieta Dgbrowska-Smektala, who died on February 13, 2000,
was connected with Warsaw University. She received her MA degree from the Philological Faculty,
Oriental Institute in 1959 and embarked forthwith upon an academic career, briefly in the Institute
of Papyrolog and then for the better part of thirty years in the Egyptological Section. Apart from lec-
turing and developing her academic studies, she took a strong interest in extending the modest library
resources of the department.
In 1963-1966 she joined the team directed by Prof. Kazimierz Michalowski to work on the
reconstruction of the temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahan and the excavation of the neighboring
temple of Tuthmosis III. She also worked with the Polish archaeological teams on Kom el-Dikka in
Alexandria and at Fell Atrib in the Nile Delta. Her objective was to prepare for publication the
hieroglyphic texts on coffins and the hieratic papyri. She also assisted the recently demised conserva-
tor Jozef Gazy in the taking down of the wall paintings from the Cathedral at Faras in Sudan.
Having received a scholarship from the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies in Leiden she spent a year
in 1972 in Holland. In 1981 she was back again in Egypt.
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