Dieter Kurth (Egyptologist)
Dieter Kurth (born March 26, 1942 in Bucharest ) is a German Egyptologist .
Life
After graduating as Dr. phil. In 1975 and his habilitation in 1980 in Cologne , he received a Heisenberg grant in 1982. From 1982 to 2007 he taught as a professor at the University of Hamburg and from 1986 to 2017 headed the Edfu project in the program of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . The aim of the project was to create a reliable complete translation of the ancient Egyptian inscriptions of the Temple of Edfu in Upper Egypt .
Web links
- Literature by and about Dieter Kurth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dieter Kurth in the Hamburg professors catalog
- List of publications
supporting documents
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kurth, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |