Walter Wreszinski

Walter Wreszinski ( born March 18, 1880 in Mogilno (now Poland), † April 9, 1935 ) was a German Egyptologist and professor at the Albertus University of Königsberg.

He studied from 1898 to 1899 in Leipzig and from 1899 to 1904 in Berlin with Adolf Erman. During this time he also worked at the Egyptian language dictionary. In Berlin, he received his doctorate in 1904 with a dissertation on "The High Priest of Amon ." Since his habilitation in 1909 he was in Königsberg initially worked as a lecturer, since 1920 as an ordinary honorary professor and since 1927 as an associate professor of physiology. From 1921 to 1931 Wreszinski was editor of the literary journal orientalist. Due to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil him the professorship in 1934 because of his Jewish origin withdrawn.

The three-volume atlas of ancient Egyptian cultural history is considered his major work.

Works

• The High Priest of Amon, Diss, Berlin, 1904.

• The medicine of the ancient Egyptians I. The large medical papyrus in the Berlin Museum (Pap. Berl. 3038 ). In facsimile and transcription with translation, commentary and glossary, Leipzig 1909.

• The medicine of the ancient Egyptians II The London Medical Papyrus (BM 10059 ) and the Hearst Papyrus. Transcription, translation and commentary, Leipzig 1912.

• The medicine of the ancient Egyptians III. The Papyrus Ebers. Transcription, translation and commentary, Leipzig 1913.

• Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia, Vol V, 1913.

• Report on the photographic expedition from Cairo to Wadi Halfa. For the purpose of completing the collection of material for my Atlas of the Ancient Egyptian culture history, Leipzig 1927.