Значение слова WILKINSON в Литературной энциклопедии

SIR JOHN GARDNER (1797-1875).-Egyptologist, _s._ of a Westmoreland clergyman, studied at Oxf. In 1821 he went to Egypt, and remained there and in Nubia exploring, surveying, and studying the hieroglyphical inscriptions, on which he made himself one of the great authorities. He _pub._ two important works, of great literary as well as scholarly merit, _Materia Hieroglyphica_ (1828) and _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_ (6 vols., 1837-41). He wrote various books of travel, and was knighted in 1839.