James Henry Breasted

James Henry Breasted (August 27 1865–December 2, 1935) was born in Rockford, Illinois and was an archaeologist and historian. He was educated at the Chicago Theological Seminary, Yale University (MA 1891) and the University of Berlin (PhD 1894). He was the first American citizen to obtain a PhD in Egyptology. Breasted was in the forefront of the generation of archeologist-historians who broadened the idea of "Western Civilization" to include the entire "Near East" in Europe's cultural roots.

Further reading

• Charles Breasted, Pioneer ot the Past: The Story of James H. Breasted (New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1943.)