Miriam Lichtheim
Miriam Lichtheim (born May 3, 1914 in Constantinople , † March 27, 2004 in Jerusalem ) was an American - Israeli Egyptologist .
Life
Lichtheim was born in Constantinople as the daughter of the Zionist Richard Lichtheim and Irene Lichtheim and then lived with her family in Berlin , London and again in Berlin. 1932–33 she studied Semitic Studies and Egyptology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . After the National Socialists came to power in Germany, Lichtheim emigrated to Palestine. From 1933 to 1939 she studied ancient oriental languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with additional studies in Egyptology and Greek. Among other things, she was a student of Hans Jakob Polotsky . From 1941 she continued her studies at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , where she received her doctorate in Egyptology in 1944 . There she also worked as a research assistant from 1944 to 1952. 1953 she graduated from the School of Library Service of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the field of library science the Master of Library Science (MLS).
From 1944 until her retirement in 1974, she worked in various institutes 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 (1953–1956), University of California Los Angeles (1956-1974). In 1982 she moved to Israel and began teaching Egyptian literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem until she retired in 1988.
Their translations of ancient Egyptian texts in particular found widespread use. 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. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992.
- Moral Values in Ancient Egypt. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997.
- Telling it Briefly. A Memoir of My Life. University Press, Friborg 1999 (autobiography).
literature
- Sarah Israelit-Groll (Ed.): Studies in Egyptology. Presented to Miriam Lichtheim. 2 volumes, Jerusalem 1990.
- Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , p. 331.
- Hans Jonas : memories . Suhrkamp. P. 140 f. ISBN 3-518-45684-9
Web links
- David Hirsch: UCLA's first Near East Bibliographer dies in Israel
- Literature by and about Miriam Lichtheim in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Jonas: Memoirs . Ed .: Christian Wiese. UPNE, 2008, ISBN 978-1-58465-639-5 , pp. 81–82 ( google.ch [accessed June 3, 2020]).
- ↑ Sarah Israelit-Groll (Ed.): Studies In Egyptology. Presented to Miriam Lichtheim. Vol. 2, Jerusalem 1990, p. 1125.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lichtheim, Miriam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Israeli Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 2004 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |