Dieter Kessler

This article deals with the Egyptologist Dieter Kessler. For the musician see Dietrich Kessler .

Dieter Kessler (born October 9, 1948 in Stuttgart ) is a German Egyptologist .

Life

After graduating as Dr. phil. in Tübingen in 1977 and habilitation in 1986 in Munich , he became a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Fonts (selection)

• Historical topography of the region between Mallawi and Samaluṭ (= Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East. Supplement 30). Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-88226-078-5 (also dissertation, Tübingen 1977).
• The sacred animals and the king. Contributions to the organization, cult and theology of the late period animal cemeteries (= studies on the history, culture and religion of Egypt and the Old Testament. Volume 18). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-447-02863-7 (also habilitation thesis, Munich 1985).
• as editor with Regine Schulz : Commemorative publication for Winfried Barta . ḥtp dj n ḥzj (= Munich Egyptological Studies. Volume 4). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-631-48366-X .
• The baboon cult chamber GCC-2 (= Hildesheim Egyptological contributions. Volume 43). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1998, ISBN 3-8067-8137-0 .
• as editor with Patrick Brose: Egypt's last pyramid. The grave of Seuta (s) in Tuna el-Gebel . Brose, Haar 2007, ISBN 978-3-9812000-0-3 .
• as editor with Regine Schulz, Martina Ullmann , Alexandra Verbovsek and Stefan Jakob Wimmer : Texts - Thebes - Tonfragmente. Festschrift for Günter Burkard (= Egypt and Old Testament. Volume 76). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05864-3 .
• The superstructures of the Ibiotapheion of Tuna el-Gebel. The excavations of the Joint Mission of the Universities of Cairo and Munich 1989 - 1996 (= Tuna el-Gebel. Volume 3). Brose, Haar 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812000-1-0 .

literature

• as editors Mélanie C. Flossmann-Schütze, Maren Goecke-Bauer, Friedhelm Hoffmann , Andreas Hutterer, Katrin Annikka Schlüter, Alexander Schütze and Martina Ullmann: Small Gods - Big Gods. Festschrift for Dieter Kessler on his 65th birthday (= Tuna el-Gebel. Volume 4). Brose, Haar 2013, ISBN 978-3-944207-02-5 .