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August 22

EgyptianIslamic
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on August 22 this year.

  • R. Tzadok HaKohen of Lublind. 1900 CE

    Hasidic thinker of Lublin, author of Pri Tzadik

  1. 1798 CEEgyptian · founded

    The Institut d'Égypte, the learned society whose scholars produced the vast Description de l'Égypte, was founded in Cairo in 1798.

  2. 1898 CEEgyptian · born

    The Czech Egyptologist Jaroslav Černý, a leading authority on the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina and on hieratic script, was born in 1898.

  3. 1917 CEEgyptian · died

    The French Egyptologist Georges Legrain, who uncovered the great Karnak Cachette of statues and bronzes, died at Luxor in 1917.

  4. 1935 CEIslamic · died

    Rashid Rida, the Islamic reformer and founder-editor of the influential journal al-Manar, died in Egypt.

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