Wolfgang Helck

Wolfgang Helck, actually Hans Wolfgang Helck, ( born September 16, 1914 in Dresden, † August 27, 1993 in Hamburg ) was a German Egyptologist.

Helck was a son of the philologist Hans Helck and his wife Gertrude. He studied in Leipzig with Georg Stein Dorff and in Göttingen at Hermann Kees and graduated in 1938 with his doctorate. As a soldier in the Second World War, he became in 1943 in captivity. In 1947 he returned to Göttingen and habilitated there in 1951. Initially Helck was Privatdozent in Göttingen before he became in 1956 associate professor of Egyptology at the University of Hamburg from 1963 until his retirement in 1979 he worked there as a professor.

Helck was a member of the German Archaeological Institute and was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.

He remained active after his retirement and was together with Wolfhart Westendorf editor of the encyclopedia of Egyptology, which was completed in 1992. Helck is considered one of the foremost Egyptologists of the 20th century. He published a number of books and articles on the history of the Egyptian and Near Eastern culture.

Publications (selection )

  • The influence of the military leaders in the 18th Egyptian dynasty ( = Studies on the history and archeology of Egypt, Vol 14). Leipzig 1939.
  • Studies on the official titles of the Egyptian Old Kingdom ( = Egyptological research No. 18). Augustin, Gluckstadt / Hamburg / New York 1954.
  • Documents of the 18th dynasty. Issue 17-22, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1955-1958.
  • Small Encyclopedia of Egyptology. together with Eberhard Otto, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1956.
  • Studies on Manetho and the Egyptian king lists ( = Studies on the History and Archaeology of Egypt. Vol. 18), Berlin 1956.
  • For the administration of the Middle and New Kingdom ( = problems of Egyptology. Vol. 3). Brill, Leiden 1958.
  • Materials for the economic history of the New Kingdom. In: Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Class of literature. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1960-1969.
  • Documents of the 18th dynasty. Translation to folders 17-22, Berlin 1961.
  • The relations between Egypt and the Near East in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC In: Egyptological essays. ( AEA ) Volume 5, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1962. Second, revised edition, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1971.
  • 2nd edition, Brill, Leiden / Köln 1981, ISBN 9004064974th
  • Problems of Egyptology. Brill, Leiden, from 1953.
  • Ägyptologische treatises. ( AEA ), Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden from 1960.
  • Small Egyptian texts. ( KÄŦ ) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden from 1969.
  • Encyclopedia of Egyptology. Volume I to VII, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975-1992, together with Wolfhart Westendorf, in the preparatory phase and Eberhard Otto ( † 1974. )
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