Erich Lüddeckens

Erich Gottfried Leberecht Lüddeckens (born June 15, 1913 in Hirschberg im Riesengebirge , † July 1, 2004 ) was a German Egyptologist .

Life

Erich Lüddeckens grew up in Berlin and studied Egyptology, Ancient History, Hebrew Studies, Classical Philology and Archeology there and in Munich. He received his PhD in Egyptology in 1939. After the war he studied Protestant theology and also worked as a pastor for a short time. In 1950 he switched to the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, followed by his habilitation in Egyptology in Mainz in 1953. In 1964 he was appointed professor of Egyptology at the University of Würzburg . He retired in 1981.

His field of work was in particular the demotic and Coptic Egyptian.

Fonts (selection)

Investigations into the religious content, language and form of the Egyptian death lamentations (= communications of the German Institute for Egyptian Antiquity in Cairo. Volume 11,1 / 2). Reichsverlagsamt, Berlin 1943, OCLC 918141813 (also dissertation, Berlin 1939).
Egyptian marriage contracts (= Egyptological treatises. Volume 1). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1960, OCLC 890111270 (also habilitation thesis, Mainz 1953).
P [apyrus] Vienna D 10151. A new document on the Egyptian benefice trade in the Persian era (= news of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Born 1965, number 5). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1965, OCLC 906170822 .
as editor: Demotic name book . Reichert, Wiesbaden, ISBN 3-89500-168-6 .
- Volume 1.1. ʾEjswqrt - pʾj = s-nfr. 1986.
  - Delivery 1, ISBN 3-88226-101-3 .
  - Delivery 2, ISBN 3-88226-120-X .
  - Delivery 3, ISBN 3-88226-163-3 .
  - Delivery 4, ISBN 3-88226-195-1 .
  - Delivery 5, ISBN 3-88226-249-4 .
  - Delivery 6, ISBN 3-88226-288-5 .
- Volume 1.2. Pʾpʿle - sn-snw. 1993.
  - Delivery 7, ISBN 3-88226-412-8 .
  - Delivery 8, ISBN 3-88226-443-8 .
  - Delivery 9, ISBN 3-88226-489-6 .
  - Delivery 10, ISBN 3-88226-495-0 .
  - Delivery 11, ISBN 3-88226-559-0 .
  - Delivery 12, ISBN 3-88226-614-7 .
- Volume 1.3. Sn.t-snw.t - ..? .., name indices, supplements. 2000.
  - Delivery 13, ISBN 3-88226-834-4 .
  - Delivery 14, ISBN 3-88226-891-3 .
  - Delivery 15, ISBN 3-89500-058-2 .
  - Delivery 16, ISBN 3-89500-058-2 .
  - Delivery 17, ISBN 3-89500-167-8 .
as editor: Demotic documents from Hawara (= directory of oriental manuscripts in Germany. Supplement 28). Steiner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-515-05408-1 .

literature

Heinz-Josef Thissen and Karl-Theodor Zauzich as editors: Grammata demotika. Festschrift for Erich Lüddeckens on June 15, 1983 . G. Zauzich, Würzburg 1984, ISBN 3-924151-01-6 .

Web links

Obituary by Andrea Jördens

personal data
SURNAME	Lüddeckens, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lüddeckens, Erich Gottfried Leberecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains
DATE OF DEATH	July 1, 2004