Burkhard Backes

Burkhard Backes (* 1975 in Euskirchen ) is a German Egyptologist .

Life

From 1995 to 1998 he studied Egyptology and Prehistory and Protohistory in Bonn and from 1998 to 1999 Egyptology and Art History in Strasbourg , where he became Maîtrise (histoire de L'art et archeologie - mention archeologie) in 1999 . He completed his doctoral studies (1999–2003) in Bonn with a doctorate in Egyptology. From 1999 to 2008 he was a research assistant and research assistant in the Book of the Dead project at the University of Bonn . From 2008 to 2010, he was Departmental Lecturer in Egyptology at the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford . From 2010 to 2012 he was a research assistant at the University of Tübingen with his own position for the Papyrus Schmitt ( DFG ) project. From 2012 to 2014 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School Forms of Prestige in Ancient Cultures at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After completing his habilitation in 2014 (Egyptology), he became a private lecturer in Tübingen . From 2015 to 2016 he was a research assistant at the University of Tübingen (Bridging Funds), from 2016 to 2019 with his own position for the project sarcophagus and coffin of the Aaschyt (DFG), since 2019 for the project Two later funeral ensembles from Thebes in Berlin's Egyptian region Museum (AM 3–6 and 50–54) .

His focus is on content, transmission and use of funerary texts in ancient Egypt , the Egyptian Book of the Dead , text edition and text criticism .

Fonts (selection)

• Ritual reality. About the appearance and sphere of activity of the weaver god Hedjhotep and the intellectual handling of a conception of God in ancient Egypt (= Rites égyptiens. Volume 9). Brepols, Turnhout 2001, ISBN 2-503-51285-2 (also thesis, Strasbourg 1999).
• The ancient Egyptian "two-way book". Studies on the coffin text proverbs 1029–1130 (= Egyptological treatises. Volume 69). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05237-6 (also dissertation, Bonn 2003).
• Word index for the late Book of the Dead (pTurin 1791) (= Studies on the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Volume 9). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-477-05258-9 .
• Three death papyri from a Theban workshop of the late period. (pBerlin P. 3158, pAberdeen ABDUA 84023, pBerlin P. 3159) (= manuscripts of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Volume 11). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05810-0 .
• with Svenja A. Gülden, Holger Kockelmann , Marcus Müller-Roth, Irmtraut Munro and Simone Stöhr: Bibliography on the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (= Studies on the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Volume 13). 2nd expanded edition, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05865-0 .
• as editor with Alexandra Verbovsek 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 Caroline von Nicolai: Cultural coherence through prestige. Contributions to the research colloquium of the graduate school “Forms of Prestige in Ancient Cultures” Munich 20. – 22. February 2013 (= Munich studies on the old world. Volume 10). Utz, Munich 2014, ISBN 3-8316-4263-X .
• as editor with Jacco Dieleman : Liturgical texts for Osiris and the deceased in Late Period Egypt. Proceedings of the colloquiums at New York (ISAW), 6 May 2011, and Freudenstadt, 18–21 July 2012 (= Studies on the Late Egyptian Religion. Volume 15). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10369-5 .
• The "Papyrus Schmitt" (pBerlin P. 3057). A funerary book of rituals from the late Egyptian period. Edition and text commentary (= Egyptian and oriental papyri and manuscripts from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection Berlin. Volume 4). De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 3-11-041448-1 (also habilitation thesis, Tübingen 2014).
• Coffin and sarcophagus of the Aaschyt (Kairo JE 47355 and 47267) , Studies on Ancient Egyptian Death Texts 21, Wiesbaden 2020, ISBN 978-3-447-11307-6 .

Web links

• Brief CV and list of publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Staff , on totenbuch.awk.nrw.de, accessed on August 30, 2020