Hartwig Altenmüller

Hartwig Altenmüller ( born September 23, 1938 in Saulgau ) is a German Egyptologist. He was from 1971 to 2003 professor at the University of Hamburg. From 1969 to 1982 he worked as an archaeologist at Saqqara and from 1984 to 1998 in the Valley of the Kings.

Life

Altenmüller comes from the family of an Upper Swabian school teacher, whose second of eight children, he was. In the 1950s, the family moved to Rottweil, where Altenmüller the classical language Albertus -Magnus -Gymnasium visited. In 1953 he entered the Protestant seminary Maulbronn and moved in 1955 to the Evangelical Seminar Blaubeuren, where he was taught by Hellmut Brunner and his wife Emma Brunner- Traut. In 1957 he left the convent school with the Maturum ( High School ) to complete the study of classical philology in Tübingen and Munich. From 1960, he added the study of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Tübingen, Munich and Paris. In 1964 he was in Munich with the theme The Apotropaia and the gods of Middle Egypt. A typological and religio-historical study of the so-called "magic knife" of the Middle Kingdom doctorate. He then went to the University of Hamburg, where he worked as a research assistant at the Hamburg seminar worked for history and culture of the Middle East until 1969. 1969/70 he worked for the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo with archaeological investigations in the necropolis of Sakkara and habilitated in 1970 in Hamburg in the subject Egyptology with a thesis on "The lyrics to the funeral ritual in the pyramids of the Old Kingdom ." In 1971 he was appointed to the Chair of Egyptology and Egyptology in 1979 appointed the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg in the successor Wolfgang Helcks Head of the Department, a position he held until his retirement in 2003.

In 1988 he was invited to a guest professor at the University of Sohag (Egypt).

Publications (selection )

Altenmüller made ​​since the 1970s, most of the contributions to the "Encyclopedia of Egyptology ". In addition, he oversaw in 1974 as a publisher, the magazine "Studies on Ancient Egyptian culture."

  • Afterlife in Egypt. in: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen (ed.): The scientific Bible dictionary on the Internet ( WiBiLex ). 2006
  • Introduction to hieroglyphic writing. Buske, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-87548-373-1.
  • The Mummy Case of Khonsu - maacheru. / Leather belts and leather pendant from the mummy of Khonsu - maacheru. / The mummy wrappings of Khonsu - maacheru. In: Wulf Koepke, Bernd Schmelz ( ed.): Ancient Egypt ( = from the Museum of Ethnology Hamburg NF Vol 30. ). Holos, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-86097-540-4, pp. 21-126.
  • The wall displays in the grave of Mehu in Saqqara ( = Archaeological Publications. Vol. 42). of Saverne, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-0504-4.
  • Third preliminary report about the work of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg at the grave of the Bay ( KV13 ) in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes. In: Studies of Ancient Egyptian culture. Vol 21, 1994, ISSN 0340-2215, pp. 1-18.
  • The grave of Queen Tausert ( KV14 ). Report on an archaeological enterprise. In: Göttingen miscellanea. H. 84, 1985, ISSN 0344 - 385x, pp. 7-17.
  • Ahmed Mahmoud Moussa: The grave of Nianchchnum and Khnumhotep ( = German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department Archaeological Publications Vol 21. . ). of Saverne, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0050-6.
  • Ahmed M. Moussa: The tomb of Nefer and Ka -Hay ( = Old kingdom tombs at the causeway of Unas at Saqqara King = German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department Archaeological Publications Vol 5, ISSN 2190-5843. . ). of Saverne, Mainz 1971.
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