Berlin School (Egyptology)

The Berlin School of Egyptology is the name of a group of researchers who worked in Berlin from the end of the 19th century and subsequently also at other German university locations through calls. It was founded by Adolf Erman , from 1884 successor to Karl Richard Lepsius on the chair of the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University . Erman's students such as Kurt Sethe and Hermann Grapow are also considered to be representatives .

Thanks to the intensive work of the Berlin School, Berlin was the undisputed center of German Egyptology well into the 20th century. The later famous Egyptologists Edouard Naville , James Henry Breasted and Alan H. Gardiner studied here . The collection gathered there is still the largest in Germany today. The most important achievement of the grammarians of the Berlin School is the development of the dictionary of the Egyptian language . With people like Rudolf Anthes , the Berlin School was also spread beyond Germany.

literature

• Adolf Erman: My life and my work , 1929
• Wolfgang Helck : Egyptology at German Universities , Wiesbaden 1969, p. 11.
• Thomas L. Gertzen: École de Berlin and "Golden Age" (1882-1914) of Egyptology as a science. The teacher-student relationship of Ebers, Erman and Sethe. De Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-030096-3 .