Miriam Lichtheim

Miriam Lichtheim ( May 3, 1914 in Istanbul, † March 27, 2004 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli Egyptologist.

Light Home emigrated to the seizure of power by the National Socialists in Germany to Palestine. From 1933 to 1939 she studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ancient oriental languages ​​with additional studies in Egyptology and Greek. She was among other things a student of Hans Jakob Polotsky. In 1944 she received her doctorate in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She continued her studies at the School of Library Service of the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign continued in the field of library science, for which they have a Master of Library Science (MLS ) received in 1953.

From 1944 until her retirement in 1974 she worked in various institutions as a librarian and lecturer in the field of Egyptology, including: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, New School for Social Research (New York), Yale University Library, University of California Los Angeles. In 1982 she began to teach Egyptian literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, until she retired in 1988.

In particular, their translations of ancient Egyptian texts were widely spread. In 1973, she published the first volume of ancient Egyptian literature ( Ancient Egyptian Literature ), 1976 and 1980, the second the third volume.

Publications (selection)

  • With Elizabeth Stefanski: Coptic Ostraca from Medinet Habu. University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, 1952.
  • Ancient Egypt: A survey of current historiography. The American Historical Review, 1963.
  • Ancient Egyptian Literature. 3 volumes, The University of California Press, 1973-1980.
  • Late Egyptian Wisdom Literature in the International Context. Orbis Biblicus Et Orientalis, 1983.
  • Ancient Egyptian autobiographies chiefly of the Middle Kingdom: A study and an anthology. Orbis biblicus et orientalis, 1988.
  • Maat in Egyptian Autobiographies and Related Studies. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1992.
  • Moral Values ​​in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1997.
  • Telling it Briefly. A Memoir of My Life. University Press, Fribourg 1999 ( autobiography).
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