Alfred Grimm (Egyptologist)

Alfred Grimm (born February 3, 1953 in Munich ) is a German Egyptologist and expert on questions of research and collection history.

From 1974 Alfred Grimm studied Egyptology, Assyriology, art history and philology of the Christian Orient and art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1986 he received his doctorate with the thesis "The ancient Egyptian festival calendar in the temples of the Greco-Roman era". From 1978 to 1990 Alfred Grimm worked at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz . In addition, he worked from 1984 to 1990 as a research assistant and then as an academic adviser at the Institute for Egyptology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Subsequently, Alfred Grimm worked at the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich in various positions as curator, later senior and principal curator, and from 1997 to 2014 as deputy director. From 2014 to 2018 Alfred Grimm acted as the representative of the Free State of Bavaria for provenance research ( Bavarian National Museum ). At the same time he was the founding chairman of the Association for Provenance Research Bavaria from 2015 to 2019, of which he has been honorary chairman since 2019.

Fonts

• with Isabell Grimm-Stadelmann: Princes and Pharaohs - Egypt in Bavaria . Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-07082-0 .
• with Sylvia Schoske (ed.): Winckelmann and Egypt. The rediscovery of Egyptian art in the 18th century . Exhibition catalog Munich 2005, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-87490-724-4 .
• with Hermann A. Schlögl : The Theban grave no. 136 and the beginning of the Amarna period. Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05132-9 .
• The secret of the gold coffin from grave no. 55 in the Valley of the Kings , in: Der Radiologe 42, Heft 12 (2002) 1026-1031. Berlin / Heidelberg 2002, DOI 10.1007 / s00117-002-0845-8.
• with Sylvia Schoske (ed.): The secret of the golden coffin. Akhenaten and the end of the Amarna period. Exhibition catalog Munich 2001 [Writings from the Egyptian Collection 10] Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-722-8 .
• Rilke and Egypt. Munich 1997. ISBN 3-7705-2929-4 .
• Death in the water. Ritual destruction of enemies and execution by drowning , in: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 16 (1989) 113–119.