Johannes Dümichen

Johannes Dümichen

Johannes Dümichen (born October 15, 1833 in Weißholz near Großglogau , Silesia , † February 7, 1894 in Strasbourg ) was a German Egyptologist .

Life

Dümichen studied theology and philology in Berlin and Breslau from 1852 to 1855 and again attended the university in Berlin from 1859 to 1862 to pursue Egyptological studies under Lepsius and Brugsch . In October 1862 Dümichen began his first trip to Egypt and Nubia , which he then extended to a large part of Sudan . He returned from this trip in April 1865. Dümichen made a second trip to Egypt in 1868 together with the photographic department of the expedition returning from Aden , which had been sent to Asia to observe the solar eclipse . He published the results of this expedition in a magnificent work (2 volumes, Berlin 1869–70). A third and fourth tour of the Nile Valley followed in 1869 when the Suez Canal was inaugurated .

After the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm University in Strasbourg , Dümichen was appointed professor of Egyptology in 1872. Between 1875 and 1876 he traveled again to Egypt to complete some of the work begun on previous trips in Theban tombs and in the Hathor Temple at Dendera . He had the difficult excavation of the Dendera temple carried out and then copied the hieroglyphic texts that had come to light through this excavation , among which were the inscriptions relating to the building of the temple that he was particularly looking for.

Since 1869 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Fonts (selection)

• Building certificate for the temple complex of Dendera . Leipzig 1865
• Geographical inscriptions of ancient Egyptian monuments . 2 vol. Plates and 1 vol. Text, Leipzig 1866
• Ancient Egyptian calendar inscriptions . Leipzig 1866
• Historical inscriptions of ancient Egyptian monuments . 2 vols. Leipzig 1867-68
• The fleet of an Egyptian queen from the 17th century BC. Leipzig 1868 ( digitized )
• The rock temples of Abu Simbel and its sculptures and inscriptions . Berlin 1869
• Results of an archaeological and photographic expedition sent to Egypt on the orders of His Majesty King Wilhelm of Prussia in 1868 . 2 vols. Berlin 1871
• Ebers papyrus . The first reliable information found so far about the reign of an Egyptian king from the old empire, which is handed down to us through the medicinischen papyrus Ebers. Engelmann publishing house, 1874.
• Architectural history of the Dendera temple and description of the individual parts of the structure according to the inscriptions on its walls . Strasbourg 1877
• The oases of the Libyan desert . Strasbourg 1878
• The calendar of the festival lists in the temple of Medinet Habu . Leipzig 1881
• The tomb palace of Patuamenap in the Theban Necropolis . 3 Dept. Leipzig 1884–94

literature

• Wilhelm Spiegelberg:  Dümichen, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 162 f.
• Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was Who in Egyptology , 3rd revised edition, London 1995, pp. 131-132.
• Frédéric Colin: Comment on the creation of a 'bibliothèque de papyrus' à Strasbourg compensa la perte des manuscrits précieux brûlés dans le siège de 1870. In: La revue de la BNU. No. 2, 2010, pp. 24-47 [1] .

Web links

Wikisource: Johannes Dümichen  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Johannes Dümichen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member History: Johannes Dümichen. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 24, 2018 .