Charles Nims, Egyptologist, expert on ancient languages
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) Wednesday, November 23, 1988
Charles Nims, 82, an Egyptologist and expert on ancient languages, died Saturday at Mitchell Hospital.
Mr. Nims, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, spent 30 winter seasons at Chicago House, the institute's research center in Luxor, Egypt.
Modern Luxor is the site of Thebes, an ancient religious center about 400 miles south of Cairo. At Chicago House, researchers record inscriptions that were made on the walls of temples and monuments.
Mr. Nims was the author of Thebes of the Pharaohs: Pattern for Every City, a book on the monuments at Thebes.
Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Mr. Nims received a bachelor's degree in 1928 from Alma College in Alma, Michigan, and a bachelor of divinity degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1931.
After being ordained to the Presbyterian ministry that year, Mr. Nims began study at the Oriental Institute, where he developed an interest in Demotic, an Egyptian script that followed hieroglyphs. He received a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the U. of C. in 1937.
Mr. Nims was also an accomplished photographer who worked on Oriental Institute expeditions from 1934 to 1939. In 1940, be became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Eldorado, Illinois, and from 1943 to 1946 was a chaplain in the U.S. Army.ld director of the Epigraphic Survey from 1964 until his retirement in 1972.
He is survived by his wife, Myrtle.
Services and burial will be private.
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) Wednesday, November 23, 1988.
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) Wednesday, November 23, 1988
Charles Nims, 82, an Egyptologist and expert on ancient languages, died Saturday at Mitchell Hospital.
Mr. Nims, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, spent 30 winter seasons at Chicago House, the institute's research center in Luxor, Egypt.
Modern Luxor is the site of Thebes, an ancient religious center about 400 miles south of Cairo. At Chicago House, researchers record inscriptions that were made on the walls of temples and monuments.
Mr. Nims was the author of Thebes of the Pharaohs: Pattern for Every City, a book on the monuments at Thebes.
Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Mr. Nims received a bachelor's degree in 1928 from Alma College in Alma, Michigan, and a bachelor of divinity degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1931.
After being ordained to the Presbyterian ministry that year, Mr. Nims began study at the Oriental Institute, where he developed an interest in Demotic, an Egyptian script that followed hieroglyphs. He received a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the U. of C. in 1937.
Mr. Nims was also an accomplished photographer who worked on Oriental Institute expeditions from 1934 to 1939. In 1940, be became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Eldorado, Illinois, and from 1943 to 1946 was a chaplain in the U.S. Army.ld director of the Epigraphic Survey from 1964 until his retirement in 1972.
He is survived by his wife, Myrtle.
Services and burial will be private.
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) Wednesday, November 23, 1988.
Charles Nims, Egyptologist, expert on ancient languages
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) Wednesday, November 23, 1988
Charles Nims, 82, an Egyptologist and expert on ancient languages, died Saturday at Mitchell Hospital.
Mr. Nims, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, spent 30 winter seasons at Chicago House, the institute's research center in Luxor, Egypt.
Modern Luxor is the site of Thebes, an ancient religious center about 400 miles south of Cairo. At Chicago House, researchers record inscriptions that were made on the walls of temples and monuments.
Mr. Nims was the author of Thebes of the Pharaohs: Pattern for Every City, a book on the monuments at Thebes.
Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Mr. Nims received a bachelor's degree in 1928 from Alma College in Alma, Michigan, and a bachelor of divinity degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1931.
After being ordained to the Presbyterian ministry that year, Mr. Nims began study at the Oriental Institute, where he developed an interest in Demotic, an Egyptian script that followed hieroglyphs. He received a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the U. of C. in 1937.
Mr. Nims was also an accomplished photographer who worked on Oriental Institute expeditions from 1934 to 1939. In 1940, be became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Eldorado, Illinois, and from 1943 to 1946 was a chaplain in the U.S. Army.ld director of the Epigraphic Survey from 1964 until his retirement in 1972.
He is survived by his wife, Myrtle.
Services and burial will be private.
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) Wednesday, November 23, 1988.
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) Wednesday, November 23, 1988
Charles Nims, 82, an Egyptologist and expert on ancient languages, died Saturday at Mitchell Hospital.
Mr. Nims, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, spent 30 winter seasons at Chicago House, the institute's research center in Luxor, Egypt.
Modern Luxor is the site of Thebes, an ancient religious center about 400 miles south of Cairo. At Chicago House, researchers record inscriptions that were made on the walls of temples and monuments.
Mr. Nims was the author of Thebes of the Pharaohs: Pattern for Every City, a book on the monuments at Thebes.
Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Mr. Nims received a bachelor's degree in 1928 from Alma College in Alma, Michigan, and a bachelor of divinity degree from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1931.
After being ordained to the Presbyterian ministry that year, Mr. Nims began study at the Oriental Institute, where he developed an interest in Demotic, an Egyptian script that followed hieroglyphs. He received a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the U. of C. in 1937.
Mr. Nims was also an accomplished photographer who worked on Oriental Institute expeditions from 1934 to 1939. In 1940, be became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Eldorado, Illinois, and from 1943 to 1946 was a chaplain in the U.S. Army.ld director of the Epigraphic Survey from 1964 until his retirement in 1972.
He is survived by his wife, Myrtle.
Services and burial will be private.
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) Wednesday, November 23, 1988.
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