Vladimir Golenishchev

Vladimir Semenovich Golenishtchev (also Vladimir Golenischeff, Russian Владимир Семёнович Голенищев; * 17 Januarjul / January 29 1856greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † August 5, 1947 in Nice ) was a Russian Egyptologist.

Life

Vladimir Golenishtchev was born the son of the big merchant Golenishtchev Semyon and his wife Sophia in Saint Petersburg. After leaving University in 1880 he worked in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, where in 1886 he was curator of the Egyptian collection. He visited Egypt no less than 60 times and was doing an extensive private collection together. The bankruptcy of the gold mining corporation in the Middle Urals, in which his family was involved, brought him to the brink of ruin. He was forced to leave his collection to sell, but made ​​sure that she stayed in Russia, so that it was acquired in 1911 by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, whose stock was thus greatly extended. After the Russian Revolution he was domiciled in Cairo and Nice and never returned to his homeland. From 1924 to 1929 he was professor of Egyptology at the University of Cairo. For a time, was responsible for cataloging the hieratic papyri in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

He published his first significant work in 1877 on the Metternich Tele and particularly in connection with several important papyri of the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum, which he discovered or acquired and published. So he bought in 1891 in antique shops in Cairo Papyrus Moscow 120 to the travelogue of Wenamun, the Papyrus Moscow 127, the so-called "Moscow literary Letter," which has become known as the odyssey of Wermai, and the Papyrus Moscow 169 with the so-called Onomastikon of Amenemope. 1893 acquired the mathematical papyrus Moscow 4676th In the Ermitage he discovered the Papyrus St Petersburg in 1115 with the story of the castaways.