Alexandra Verbovsek

Alexandra Verbovsek is a German Egyptologist .

Life

From 1989 to 1996 she studied Egyptology, Near Eastern antiquity , classical archeology and Coptic Studies in Münster , Paris and Hamburg , where she graduated in 1996 ( examinations on the so-called Hyksos monuments ). Funded from 1997 to 1999 with a doctoral scholarship from the University of Hamburg and a scholarship from the Johanna and Fritz Buch Gedächtnis Foundation, she completed her doctorate in Hamburg in 2001 ( depictions of private individuals and royal descendants from temples of gods and royal cults ). From 2001 to 2015 she was in Munich as a research assistant (2005-2006) and C1 (2001-2005), senior scientific assistant C2 academic Oberrätin made on time (2006-2015). After her habilitation in 2005 in Munich ( Between “Theory and Practice”. Heuristic and Ontological Modeling of the Egyptological Approach to Art ) and the Venia legendi for Egyptology, she worked from 2005 to 2012 at the Graduate College Forms of Prestige in Ancient Cultures . From 2008 to 2010 she was a Feodor Lynen long-term fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Oxford and Barns Junior Research Fellowship / Senior Fellow at Queen's College (Oxford) . Since April 1, 2015, she has been teaching as Professor of Archeology and Cultural History of Northeast Africa: Material Culture at the Institute for Archeology at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Her main research interests are archeology, especially the Middle Kingdom, temples; material culture; Egyptological art and image studies, theory, methodology and didactics; and cultural-scientific and cultural-historical discourses in Egyptology.

Fonts

• "Given in the temple as a favor to the king ..." Private temple statues of the Old and Middle Kingdom (= studies on the history, culture and religion of Egypt and the Old Testament. Volume 63). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-05156-6 (also dissertation, Hamburg 2001).
• The so-called Hyksosmonumente. An archaeological location determination (= Göttingen Orient Research. Series 4 Egypt. Volume 46). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05353-4 (also master's thesis, Hamburg 1996).
• as editor with Burkhard Backes and Catherine Jones : Methodology and Didactics in Egyptology. Challenges of a paradigm shift in cultural studies in ancient studies (= Egyptology and cultural studies. Volume 4). Fink, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 3-7705-5185-0 .
• as editor with Gregor Neunert and Kathrin Gabler: Socializations: Individual - Group - Society. Contributions from the First Munich Working Group on Young Egyptian Studies (MAJA 1), December 3rd to 5th, 2010 (= Göttingen Orient Research. Series 4 Egypt. Volume 51). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06660-0 .
• as editor with Gregor Neunert and Kathrin Gabler: Nekropolen; Grave - picture - ritual. Contributions by the Second Munich Working Group on Young Egyptology (MAJA 2), December 2nd to 4th, 2011 (= Göttingen Orient Research. Series 4 Egypt. Volume 54). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-447-06872-7 .
• as editor with Gregor Neunert and Kathrin Gabler: Image: Aesthetics - Medium - Communication. Contributions by the Third Munich Working Group on Young Egyptology (MAJA 3), December 7th to 9th, 2012 (= Göttingen Orient Research. Series 4 Egypt. Volume 58). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10100-4 .
• as editor with Gregor Neunert and Kathrin Gabler: Text: Knowledge - Effect - Perception. Contributions of the fourth Munich working group Young Egyptology (MAJA 4), 29.11. to 1.12.2013 (= Göttingen Orient Research. Series 4 Egypt. Volume 59). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10348-0 .
• as editor with Susanne Beck, I-Ting Liao, Henrike Simon and Burkhard Backes: Built space: architecture - landscape - people. Contributions of the Fifth Munich Working Group on Young Egyptology (MAJA 5), 12.12. to 14.12.2014 (= Göttingen Orient Research. Series 4 Egypt. Volume 62). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 3-447-10632-8 .

Web links

• Humboldt University of Berlin