Adolphe Gutbub

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Adolphe Gutbub (born January 1915 in Strasbourg ; † September 9, 1987 ) was a French Egyptologist .

Gutbub studied Egyptology at the University of Strasbourg with Pierre Montet after attending school in his hometown . During the Second World War he taught as a teacher until he was forced into the Wehrmacht . He defected at the front in Poland and was sent to a Soviet prison camp until 1945. From 1945 to 1951 he worked as a teacher at a school in Strasbourg and taught part-time at the University of Strasbourg. He spent the years 1951 to 1960 as an employee of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale in Cairo . From 1960 to 1978 he worked at the Center national de la recherche scientifique , from 1978 to 1982 professor at the University of Lille .

His research area was Egyptian philology, where he worked in particular on the texts from the temple of Kom Ombo .

literature

  • Mélanges Adolphe Gutbub. Institut d'égyptologie, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 1984 (pp. III – V list of publications).
  • Danielle Inconnu-Bocquillon: Adolphe Gutbub 1915-1987. In: Bulletin de la Société Française d'Egyptologie 110, 1987, pp. 18-23.
personal data
SURNAME Gutbub, Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1987