Erik Hornung

Erik Hornung ( born January 28, 1933, Riga) is a German Egyptologist who is resident in Switzerland.

Biography

Hornung received his doctorate in 1956 at the University of Tübingen and habilitated in 1963 in Münster ( Westphalia). In 1967 he was professor at the University of Basel and was there until his retirement in 1998 Professor of Egyptology. He is also specialized in studies of royal grave texts from the Valley of the Kings and has released publications on the graves KV1 ( Ramses VII ) KV2 ( Ramses IV ) and KV17 ( Seti I ) and KV57 ( Horemheb ). Hornung is known worldwide as the best expert in the necropolis in Western Thebes and is editor of the series The Ancient Orient in the library of the ancient world. He is a member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Works

  • The One and the Many - ancient Egyptian gods. 6th, completely revised and expanded edition, University Press, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-14984- X; 7th edition, of Saverne, Darmstadt / Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4364-0.
  • Introduction to Egyptology: Stand - methods - tasks. 5, unchanged edition, University Press, Darmstadt 2004.
  • Akhenaten: the religion of light. Patmos, Dusseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-491-69076-5.
  • Spirit of the Pharaonic period. Artemis & Winkler, Dusseldorf / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-7608-1215-5.
  • Broad Egyptian history. University Press, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18779-2.
  • Valley of the Kings. Artemis & Winkler, Dusseldorf / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-7608-0519-1.
  • The Valley of the Kings. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47995-2.
  • The Books of the Egyptians. Artemis & Winkler, Dusseldorf / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-86047-236-4.
  • Egyptian Beyond books: an introductory overview. Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-89678-043-3.
  • The Book of the Dead of the Egyptians. Artemis & Winkler, Dusseldorf / Zurich 1997 ( Unchanged photomechanical reprint of the 1979 edition ) ISBN 3-7608-1037-3.
  • The grave of Horemheb in the Valley of the Kings. (in collaboration with F. Teichmann ) Bern 1971.
  • The Tomb of Pharaoh Seti I ( German Title: The grave of Seti I. ) Artemis, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-1047-0.
  • The Egyptian Myth of the Heavenly Cow. An etiology of the imperfect ( = Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Vol. 46). In 1982.
  • The Imydwat: the font of the hidden room. ed. based on texts from the tombs of the New Kingdom, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1963-1967.
  • The night journey of the sun. New edition, Artemis & Winkler, Dusseldorf / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-7608-1200-7.
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