- Eduard Seler
Eduard Georg Seler (
December 5 ,1849 –November 23 ,1922 ) was a prominentanthropologist ,ethnohistorian ,linguist ,epigrapher , academic and Americanist scholar, who made extensive contributions in these fields towards the study ofpre-Columbian cultures inthe Americas . He is most renowned for his foundational studies concerning the ethnography, documents and history ofMesoamerica n cultures, for which he has been regarded as one of the most influential Mesoamericanist scholars active around the turn of the 20th century. [Nicholson (1973, p.348)]Writings by Eduard Seler
*in the original German :- "Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach- und Alterthumskunde". 5 vols. Berlin : A. Asher, 1902-1923.
*translated (by Charles P. Bowditch & Frank E. Comparato) into English :- "Collected Works in Mesoamerican Linguistics and Archaeology". Culver City (CA) : Labyrinthos, 1990-1998.Notes
References
: cite book |author=aut|Adams, Richard E.W. |year=1991 |title=Prehistoric Mesoamerica |edition=Revised edition|location=Norman |publisher=
University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=0-8061-2304-4 |oclc=22593466 : cite book |author=aut|Coe, Michael D. |authorlink=Michael D. Coe |year=1992 |title=Breaking the Maya Code |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |isbn=0-500-05061-9 |oclc=26605966 : cite book |author=aut|Houston, Stephen D. |authorlink=Stephen D. Houston |coauthors=aut|Oswaldo Fernando Chinchilla Mazariegos, and aut|David Stuart (eds.) |year=2001 |chapter=Antiquities of Guatemala|title=The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=pp.465–469|isbn=0-8061-3204-3 |oclc=44133070 :cite book |author=aut|Nicholson, H. B. |authorlink=H. B. Nicholson|year=1973 |chapter=Eduard Georg Seler, 1849–1922|pages=pp.348–369|title= |editor=Howard F. Cline (Volume ed.), John B. Glass (Associate vol. ed.) |others=R. Wauchope (General Editor) |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin |isbn=0-292-70153-5 |oclc=163392725 : cite book |author=aut|Schumacher, Gudrun |coauthors=and aut|Gregor Wolff |year=2004 |month=November |title=Nachlässe, Manuskripte, und Autographen im Besitz des IAI |url=http://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/fileadmin/dokumentenbibliothek/Nachlaesse/200501_Nachlaesse.pdf |format=PDF online document |series=Abteilung 2, Referat 1: Nachlässe und Sondersammlungen |publisher=Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut ,Preußischer Kulturbesitz |location=Berlin |oclc=162302418|accessdate= de icon : cite web |author=aut|Sellen, Adam T. |year=2006 |title=Re-evaluation of the Early Archaeological Collections from Oaxaca: A Trip to the Seler Archives in Berlin |url=http://www.famsi.org/reports/05016/index.html |work=The Foundation Granting Department: Reports Submitted to FAMSI |publisher=Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI) |accessdate=2008-04-09: cite book |author=aut|Stuart, George E. |year=1992 |chapter=Quest for Decipherment: A Historical and Biographical Survey of Maya Hieroglyphic Investigation |title=New Theories on the Ancient Maya |series=University Museum Monograph series, nowrap|no. 77 |editor=Elin C. Danien andRobert J. Sharer (eds.) |location=Philadelphia |publisher=University Museum, University of Pennsylvania |pages=pp.1–64|isbn=0-924171-13-8 |oclc=25510312 : cite book |author=aut|Taube, Karl A. |authorlink=Karl Taube |year=1993 |title=Aztec and Maya Myths |edition=4th University of Texas printing |location=Austin |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=0-292-78130-X |oclc=29124568 : cite book |author=aut|Thompson, J. Eric S. |authorlink=J. Eric S. Thompson |year=1950 | title=Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Introduction |series=Carnegie Institution of Washington Monograph series, nowrap|no. 589| |location=Washington, DC| publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington |oclc=497712External links
* [http://www.altamerikanistik.de/Seler.html Werke Eduard Selers] at altamerikanistik.de
* [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt6z09q58k&chunk.id=bioghist-1.8.3&brand=oac biography of Eduard Seler]
* [http://www.fundacioneduardseler.org/ Fundación Eduard Seler] , non-profit association established 1992 in Mexico City, named after Seler and devoted to the archaeology, ethnohistory and indigenous concerns of the region studied by Seler es iconOver a hundred images of Uxmal in Seler's 1917 "Ruinen von Uxmal". http://academic.reed.edu/uxmal/galleries/thumbnails/drawings/Drawings-Seler.htm
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