Arne Eggebrecht

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Arne Eggebrecht (born March 12, 1935 in Munich ; † February 8, 2004 in Hildesheim ) was a German Egyptologist . From 1974 to 2000 he was director of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim. He taught as an honorary professor of museology at the University of Hildesheim . Eggebrecht is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern, international exhibition.

Life

Arne Eggebrecht is the eldest son of the writer Jürgen Eggebrecht (1898–1982) and the pianist Elfi Eggebrecht, b. Stiehr (1905-2000). His brothers are the cellist and baryton player Jörg Eggebrecht (1939–2009) and the writer and journalist Harald Eggebrecht (born 1946).

Arne Eggebrecht studied German , art history and classical archeology and Egyptology . He received his doctorate in Egyptology from the University of Munich in 1973 . He initially worked for several years on the manual of archeology and carried out research at the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich and at the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo , before he was appointed director of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim in 1974. In 1984 he became its executive director. During his tenure, Eggebrecht organized a total of 26 major exhibitions, most of which turned out to be visitor magnets and attracted a total of almost three million visitors to Hildesheim.

In addition to the publication of numerous scientific writings, he initiated the cataloging project Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum (CAA), founded the scientific series Hildesheim Egyptological Contributions and was co-founder and chairman of the Committee for Egyptology within the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ) of UNESCO . In 1978, on the occasion of the exhibition Sumer - Assur - Babylon , Eggebrecht demonstrated in a popular experiment that the Parthians could have mastered the art of electroplating with the help of the so-called Baghdad battery . From 1980 the scientist ran a successful archaeological excavation company of the German Research Foundation in the eastern Nile Delta near Qantir in the ancient capital of Pharaoh Ramses II , Pi-Ramesse .

Arne-Eggebrecht-Weg in Hildesheim

Eggebrecht vehemently advocated a new building to complement the insufficient space in the museum. In 2000 the new building was completed and opened. In the same year there was a scandal after Eggebrecht's successor in office, the US Egyptologist Eleni Vassilika , said in a closed board meeting that two of the museum's new acquisitions were forgeries. Eggebrecht bought other pieces at inflated prices. These fears have been made public by other board members. The public prosecutor's office then initiated an investigation against Eggebrecht, which was eventually closed. The dispute turned into a political issue in Hildesheim through the intervention of several rival local politicians who were on different sides. Eggebrecht filed a lawsuit for damage to his reputation, which ended with a formal "declaration of honor" by the city of Hildesheim and Vassilikas in favor of the longstanding museum director.

In the 1980s, Eggebrecht established an unusually close relationship with the East Berlin Egyptian Museum and its curator and later director Karl-Heinz Priese , which was reflected in the loan of 60 high-quality objects for the 1987 exhibition "Egypt's Rise to World Power".

family

Arne Eggebrecht was married to the Egyptologist Eva Eggebrecht . Arne and Eva Eggebrecht are the parents of video game developer Julian Eggebrecht .

Honors

  • 1984: Federal Cross of Merit
  • 1988: Lower Saxony Prize
  • In 2005, in honor of the deceased scientist, the city of Hildesheim named a connecting path (between Dammstraße and Palandtweg) that ran right next to the museum, the Arne-Eggebrecht-Weg . Two years later, a meeting room in the Hildesheim town hall was also named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michaela Schiessl: The empire called back. . Der Spiegel, 22/2002.
  2. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Eggebrecht, Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2004
Place of death Hildesheim