Elmar Edel

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Elmar Edel (born March 12, 1914 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † April 25, 1997 ) was a German Egyptologist and hetithologist .

After graduating from high school in Würzburg , Elmar Edel studied Egyptology in Heidelberg with Hermann Ranke and from 1934 in Berlin with Kurt Sethe and Hermann Grapow . He studied Hittology in Berlin with Hans Ehelolf .

In 1937 he edited various Hittite texts for the German Orient Society in the Near Eastern Department of the Berlin museums . During this time he came into contact with the Egyptian-Hittite correspondence . These are writings between Egypt and Hattuša from the second millennium BC. In 1941 he received his doctorate under Hermann Grapow . His dissertation was entitled Investigations into the Phraseology of the Egyptian Inscriptions of the Old Kingdom .

In 1955 he became an associate professor for Egyptology at the University of Bonn , and since 1963 he has been a full professor there. Elmar Edel and his team from the University of Bonn examined the necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa in 20 field campaigns from 1959 to 1981. He systematically documented the approx. 80 rock graves in their aboveground and underground sections with all epigraphic data as well as the finds and findings.

Elmar Edel has been a full member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1960 and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , in 1970 he became a full member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences , in 1977 a corresponding member of the Institut d'Égypte , and in 1979 a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Sciences and 1982 full member of the Academia Mediterranea delle Science Catania .

Fonts (selection)

  • New cuneiform transcriptions of Egyptian names from the Boghasköi texts , (1948)
  • The travel reports of Harchuf (Hrw-hwff) in his grave at Qubbet el-Hawa (34n) , Berlin (1955)
  • Ancient Egyptian Grammar I , (1955)
  • The planned visit of Hattusilis III. in Egypt , (1960)
  • Ancient Egyptian Grammar II , (1964)
  • Ancient Egyptian princely tombs near Aswan. Excavations on the Qubbet el-Hawa , Berlin (1966)
  • The rock tombs of the Qubbet el-Hawa near Aswan , Wiesbaden (1967–1971)
  • Contributions to the inscriptions of the Middle Kingdom in the graves of the Qubbet el-Hawa , Berlin (1971)
  • Egyptian doctors and Egyptian medicine at the Hittite royal court (1976)
  • The Egyptian-Hittite correspondence from Boghazköi in Babylonian and Hittite languages , Opladen (1994)
  • The treaty of Ramses II of Egypt and Hattusili III. , Berlin (1997)
  • The rock necropolis of the Qubbet el Hawa near Aswan . I. Department (Volume 1–3) The architecture, representation, texts, archaeological findings and finds of the graves QH 24 - QH 209. Written from the estate and edited by Karl-J. Seyfried and Gerd Vieler. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2008. ISBN 978-3-506-76343-3

literature

  • Manfred Bietak : Elmar Edel. In: Almanach of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1996/97, vol. 147 (1998), pp. 661–669.

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personal data
SURNAME Noble, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist and hetithologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1997