Egypt and Austria XII - Egypt and the Orient: The Current Research

Mladen Tomorad is a senior researcher and professor of Ancient History at the Department of History, University of Zagreb. He has a masters degree in History and a PhD in Ancient History and Museology, and he has also studied Egyptology at the University of Manchester.

Egypt and Austria – Egypt and the Orient: Current Research ;



Chapter 1: Early travellers to Egypt and the Middle East ;


Letters from Vienna: Richard Pococke en route to Egypt – Rachel Finnegan ;


Terryfying Unreason or a Model of Toleration? Imagining Islam in Fictional Travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius – Lucie Storchová ;


Epidemics between Europe and Egypt in a rediscovered work of Giuseppe Nizzoli – Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo & Irene Guidotti ;



Chapter 2: Travellers to Egypt and the Orient in the middle and the second half of the 19th century ;


Jakov Šašel: The origins of his Travelogue – Sanda Kočevar ;


Carlo de Marchesetti: An Austrian botanist in the land of the pharaohs – Susanna Moser ;


Prokesch-Osten jr (1837-1919) – Angela Blaschek ;


The Bombardment of Alexandria 1882 in the writings of Milan Jovanović Morski – Vera Vasiljević ;


Mária Fáy, the first Hungarian woman traveller and her journey to the Orient – Eszter Feró ;



Chapter 3: Formation pf Egyptian collections ;


The Egyptian coffin and mummy of Stephan Delhaes and other mummies from Akhmim in Hungary – Éva Liptay ;


Oriental Paintings in the former Keglević Château Topol'čianky – Marta Herucová ;


Aegyptiaca and an exhibition in Presburg/Pratislava in 1865 – Jozef Hudec ;


Egyptology in the Varaždin area: the contribution of the Bombelles family and the Paszhtory – Varady family – Anja Kovačić ;


The Egyptian collection of the Museum of Slavonia and its donors – Marina Kovač ;



Chapter 4: Egypt in art/Orientalist art ;


Carl Rudolf Huber and the Temptation of the East – Ernst Czerny ;


Adolf Loos’s purchase in 1914: The story of Ivan Napotnik and his Egyptian woman – Vesna Kamin Kajfež ;



Chapter 5: Travellers to Egypt in the first half of the 20th century ;


Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin’s voyage from Križevci to Alexandria – Ivana Funda ;


Fran Srećko Gundrum Oriovčanin in Luxor (4th-7th December 1902): The search for key comparative narratives in his diary – Mladen Tomorad ;


Gundrum’s description of the construction and grand opening of the Old Aswan Dam in 1902 – Margareta Filipović-Srhoj ;


From Habsburg Galicia to the Ottoman Egypt. Impressions from A voyage to Egypt by Stanisław Trzeciak (1904) – Grzegorz First ;


Karel Pečnik: A Slovenian physician in Egypt – Jaro Lajovic ;


Ivan Meštrović’s correspondence to Ruža Meštrović from Egypt and the Middle East in 1927: The artist’s fascination with Egypt reflected in his picture postcards to Ruža Meštrović – Sabina Kaštelančić ;



Chapter 6: Egyptian revival and Egyptomania ;


A case of modern-day burialS in ancient Egyptian sarcophagi – Tomislav Kajfež ;


Egyptianising Funerary Architecture in Budapest – Andrea Fullér ;


Images of Egypt in Zagreb from the 19th and 20th centuries: buildings, monuments, street furniture – Marina Bagarić ;


Ivan Meštrović – creating art for eternity: Meštrović’s fascination with ancient Egypt as illustrated in the family mausoleum in Otavice – Zorana Jurić Šabić ;



Chapter 7: Other studies ;


A new approach to old sound recordings from Morocco – Clemens Gütl