Adriaan de Buck

Adriaan de Buck (born September 22, 1892 in Oostkapelle , † October 28, 1959 in Leiden ) was an important Egyptologist . From 1939 he was professor of Egyptology at the University of Leiden .

Life

De Buck was the eldest son of Pieter de Bruck, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Congregation, and Johanna Catharina Agatha Vermaas. His younger brother was the librarian and philologist Hendrik de Bruck (1893–1986), author of a bibliography for the geschiedenis van Nederland .

De Buck studied theology in Leiden (1911-1916), then Egyptology at the University of Göttingen and the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1921 he became pastor (preacher) in Ursum. On July 6, 1922, he received his doctorate in theology in Leiden.

In 1924 he took part in an international project of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago , which aimed to publish Egyptian coffin texts , some of which had evolved from the pyramid texts in the Middle Kingdom . Until his death, De Buck worked on a corresponding, seven-volume book series. The first volume appeared in 1935, the last volume was published posthumously in 1961. The series is de Buck's most important work and is still considered the standard to this day. In 2006 the series was concluded with an eighth volume compiled by James Peter Allen (* 1945).

In 1928 De Buck was appointed as a lecturer, in 1939 as a professor and in 1949 as a full professor of Egyptology at the University of Leiden. During this time he was together with Franz Marius Theodor Böhl (1882-1976) co-editor of the Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Gezelschap Ex Oriente Lux . He was also known for his research on the ancient Egyptian sun cult , and he published Egyptian linguistic teachings.

In 1936 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In 1992, a symposium was held in Leiden in honor of de Buck's centenary. The lectures at the symposium were published in a commemorative publication in 1996.

Works

De Egyptische voorstellingen concerns the oerheuvel. Ijdo, Leiden 1922. Diss. Univ. Leiden 1922
De zegepraal van het licht: voorstellingen en symbols uit the oud-egyptian zone service. Amsterdam, Paris 1930.
Egyptian grammatica. Nederlandsch Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 1941.
Egyptisch leesboek , Deel I: Teksten, Deel II: Teeken-en woordenlijst. Leiden, 1941. Translated into English as Egyptian readingbook (1948).
The Egyptian Coffin Texts. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. ( Oriental Institute Publications. 34; 49; 64; 67; 73; 81; 87; 132)
- Vol. 1: Texts of Spells 1 - 75. 1935.
- Vol. 2: Texts of Spells 76-163 . 1938.
- Vol. 3: Texts of Spells 164-267 . 1947.
- Vol. 4: Texts of Spells 268-354 . 1951.
- Vol. 5: Texts of Spells 355-471. 1954
- Vol. 6: Texts of Spells 472-786 . 1956.
- Vol. 7: Texts of Spells 787-1185. 1961.
- Vol. 8: James P. Allen: Middle Kingdom Copies of Pyramid Texts. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. 2006, ISBN 1-885923-40-6 .

literature

BA van Proosdij, Jozef MA Janssen: As een goet instrument: leven en works van professor A. de Buck. Brill, Leiden 1960. (Contains 36 pages of bio-bibliography with portrait).

Web links

Writings by and about Adriaan de Buck in the catalog of the NINO, Leiden

Individual evidence

^ WRH Koops: Hendrik de Buck. In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. Leiden 1991/92 (1993), p. 102 . Retrieved January 3, 2010.
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 52.
↑ Harco Willems (Ed.): The World of the Coffin Texts: Proceedings of the Symposium held on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Adriaan de Buck, December 17-19, 1992. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 1996, ISBN 90-6258-209-5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Buck, Adriaan de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch Egyptologist and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oostkapelle
DATE OF DEATH	October 28, 1959
Place of death	Suffer

[1] WRH Koops: Hendrik de Buck. In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. Leiden 1991/92 (1993), p. 102 . Retrieved January 3, 2010.

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 52.

[3] Harco Willems (Ed.): The World of the Coffin Texts: Proceedings of the Symposium held on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Adriaan de Buck, December 17-19, 1992. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 1996, ISBN 90-6258-209-5 .