Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Giovanni Belzoni Strong Man Egyptologist by Colin Clair Giovanni Battista Belzoni. Giovanni Battista Belzoni (born November 15, 1778 in Padua , † December 3, 1823 in Gwato near Benin , Africa ) was an Italian adventurer, engineer , weightlifter and acrobat . He became known as a pioneer of Egyptology . contents. Giovanni Battista Belzoni was the son of a barber. During his youth in Rome he was particularly interested in hydraulics. The two-meter tall giant should actually have been a clergyman, but when the French under Napoleon Bonaparte took Rome in 1797, he fled the country because of the threat of military service and probably first studied hydraulics in Holland . In 1803 he moved to England , where he worked as a muscle man Samson from Patagonia in the circus " Sadler's Well Theater " due to his tall stature . In the following years he moved with his wife Sarah , who he had married in England, and his servant James Curtain through Great Britain, Portugal and Spain and appeared there not only as the strength man The Great Belzoni , but also as an actor and necromancer, he presented optical illusions and occasionally played the glass harmonica . In Malta, Belzoni was recruited in 1814 by an envoy from the Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali Pasha and in 1815 he traveled to Cairo to offer his invention, a hydraulic irrigation machine, to the Egyptian government. The pasha put him on a salary and Belzoni built a model of his machine with which one ox should do the work of four oxen. In December 1816, a demonstration was scheduled during which sabotage resulted in an accident in which James Curtain was injured. The government then lost interest in the machine. During his stay he was introduced to the British Consul General Henry Salt through Jean Louis Burckhardt . He commissioned Belzoni to carry out an expedition to Thebes in order to transport the large, about 6-7 ton heavy head of the statue of Ramses II from the local Ramesseum to the British Museum in London. It was this colossal head and its find situation that inspired Percy Bysshe Shelley to write his famous poem Ozymandias . At that time there was a bitter competition for looters in Egypt; especially between Henry Salt and his greatest rival, the French consul Bernardino Drovetti , the Turkish-Egyptian authorities and the Fellachians . On the one hand it was about valuable antiquities that the French wanted for the Louvre and the English for the British Museum, and on the other hand about bribes for the government officials and the highest possible profits for the fellahs. In addition, countless smaller traders and collectors looked for grave treasures, and local groups of robbers also worked with them. Despite numerous intrigues on the part of Drovetti, Belzoni succeeded in carrying out the commission in 1816. The “irrelevant report” that Belzoni's wife wrote about her contacts with other women during this trip, and that was published in the appendix to Belzoni's Narrative (1820), is of great cultural and historical interest . She was probably the first modern European to get that far into southern Egypt. Later expeditions with Henry Salt took Belzoni to the temples of Edfu , Philae and Elephantine . He exposed the temple of Abu Simbel and the grounds of Karnak . Belzoni returned to Thebes in 1817 and discovered the graves KV17 ( Sethos I ), KV16 ( Ramses I ), WV23 ( Eje ), KV19 ( Montuherchepschef , son of Ramses IX. ), KV21 , WV25 , KV30 and in the Valley of the Kings KV31 . In 1818 Belzoni discovered the entrance of the Chephren pyramid in Giza and penetrated to the burial chamber. Belzoni was also the first European to visit Siwa Oasis , and he found the ruins of Berenike on the Red Sea . In the summer of 1818, Belzoni and Alessandro Ricci wrote a documentary on KV17 (Belzoni grave) . He left Thebes on January 27, 1819 and returned to England in March 1820. He presented his discoveries in Egypt in the exhibition in the Egyptian Hall on May 1, 1821 in Piccadilly in London. Due to the great interest, the exhibition stayed open for almost a whole year. In March 1822 he returned to Africa. His wife Sarah accompanied him to Morocco. On a trip to Equatorial Africa he came to Gwato near Benin ( Nigeria ), where he fell ill with dysentery and died on December 3, 1823 at the age of 45. In 1862 Richard Francis Burton was looking for his grave. Only one tree grew on the place where Giovanni Battista Belzoni was buried. STRONG MAN EGYPTOLOGIST BEING THE DRAMATIZED STORY OF GIOVANNI BELZONI(A CLOSE UP BIOGRAPHY) Title: STRONG MAN EGYPTOLOGIST BEING THE DRAMATIZED. 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STRONG MAN EGYPTOLOGIST BEING THE DRAMATIZED STORY OF GIOVANNI BELZONI(A CLOSE UP BIOGRAPHY) Titre : STRONG MAN EGYPTOLOGIST BEING THE DRAMATIZED. �diteur : OLDBOURNE, LONDON. Date d'�dition : 1957. Reliure : Hardcover. Etat du livre : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Edition : First Edition. Description de la librairie. PAYMENTS CAN BE MADE BY CHEQUE, POSTAL ORDER OR PAYPAL. CREDIT CARDS (MASTERCARD AND VISA) CAN BE PROCESSED THROUGH ABEBOOKS.COM. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Strong Man Egyptologist. Being the dramatized story of Giovanni Belzoni. Titolo: Strong Man Egyptologist. Being the . Casa editrice: London: Oldbourne (1957) Data di pubblicazione: 1957. Condizione libro: Very Good. Price are net to all Visa/MC/Check/Money Order Libraries Invoiced. We do accept checks, however WE DO NOT HOLD OR RESERVE ANY ITEMS. 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