Carl Küthmann

Carl Küthmann (born June 8, 1885 in Wendthöhe near Stadthagen , † 1968 ) was a German Egyptologist and long-time director of the Kestner Museum in Hanover .

Küthmann studied after attending the Kaiser Wilhelm High School in Hanover (Abitur in 1904) in Göttingen and Berlin . On March 7, 1911, he received his doctorate in Berlin with Eduard Meyer and Adolf Erman with the dissertation "The Eastern Frontier of Egypt". After receiving his doctorate, he occasionally worked as an unskilled worker at the Kestner Museum, from 1919 he was a permanent assistant at the Kestner Museum, of which he became director in 1920. In 1938 he was dismissed from office because his wife, the classical archaeologist Hedwig Küthmann, b. Kusel, considered a Jew; the following years he lived in Grenzach . From October 1, 1945 until the end of 1951 he was again director of the museum.

Küthmann was the first Egyptologist at the Kestner Museum and contributed significantly to the expansion of its Egyptian collection, including a. 1935 through the purchase of a large part of the Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing collection .

His son was the numismatist Harald Küthmann .

literature

• Christian E. Loeben : The Egypt Collection of the August Kestner Museum and its (war) losses. Verlag Marie Leidorf , Rahden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86757-454-9 , pp. 85-89. 123-127.