Angelika Lohwasser

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Angelika Lohwasser (born May 28, 1967 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Egyptologist specializing in Sudan archeology .

Life

Angelika Lohwasser graduated from high school in 1985 and began studying Egyptology as a major subject as well as African studies in Sudan, special fields and auxiliary sciences in general archeology and prehistory as well as Arabic languages ​​and scripts at the University of Vienna . In 1990 she graduated with a master's degree, the title of her master's thesis was The Formula 'Opening the Face' .

From February 1991 to August 1992 Lohwasser worked on the project for Steles of the Middle Kingdom II, Steles of the New Kingdom I at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. She then became a research assistant at the seminar for Sudanese archeology and Egyptology at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HUB) under Steffen Wenig . The doctorate with distinction took place in Vienna in 1997/98 with a thesis on the subject of the women of the royal family von Kusch. 25th Dynasty to the time of Nastasen . From the beginning of 1998 to mid-2000, he worked as a research assistant at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin . In addition, she taught as a lecturer at the HUB, from spring 2001 as a research assistant.

In 2005 Lohwasser was a habilitation scholarship holder for the women's representative at the HUB, and from 2006 to 2008 a research scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The habilitation took place in 2008 at the Free University of Berlin (FUB) with the work Fragments of the Napatan Society. Archaeological inventory and funerary practice in the Sanam cemetery - perspectives of a cultural-historical interpretation . Since 2008 she has been a research assistant in the third-party funded project The Egyptian Scarab in the 1st Millennium BC. Chr. An investigation into the typology, chorology and chronology of a transcultural medium . Lohwasser raised the funds himself. In the winter semester 2008/09 she was visiting professor at the FUB. Since the 2009/10 winter semester, she has succeeded Erhart Graefes as Professor of Egyptology at the University of Münster . As part of a survey that has been ongoing in Wadi Abu Dom since 2009 , Lohwasser documented the ruins of Umm Ruweim in 2011 .

Lohwasser is considered an outstanding researcher in the field of Sudan archeology. Their sociological approach is considered to be groundbreaking, and was hardly available in Egyptology until then. In her treatment of previously neglected topics such as the Egyptian queens, she is largely breaking new ground. In June 2009 she was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the DFG, and in 2016 the Research Prize of the University of Münster.

Fonts

  • The formula "opening the face" (= publications of the institutes for African studies and Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Vol. 58 = contributions to Egyptology. Vol. 11). Afro-Pub, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85043-058-8 .
  • The royal women in the ancient kingdom of Kush. 25th dynasty up to the time of the Nastases (= Meroitica. Vol. 19). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04407-1 .
  • with Jürgen Willbarth: In ancient Egypt. Moses, Kempen 2005, ISBN 3-89777-262-0 .
  • The Kushite Cemetery of Sanam. A Non-royal Burial Ground of the Nubian Capital, c. 800-600 BC. Golden House Publications, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-906137-16-8 .

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SURNAME Lohwasser, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Egyptologist and Sudanese archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna