Erik Hornung

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Erik Hornung (born January 28, 1933 in Riga ) is a German Egyptologist based in Switzerland .

biography

Hornung received his doctorate in 1956 from the University of Tübingen and completed his habilitation in Münster (Westphalia) in 1963. In 1967 he became a full professor at the University of Basel and was professor of Egyptology there until his retirement in 1998. Among other things, he specializes in studies of royal grave texts from the Valley of the Kings and has published publications on the graves KV1 ( Ramses VII ), KV2 ( Ramses IV ) and KV17 ( Sethos I ) as well as KV57 ( Haremhab ). Hornung is known worldwide as the best connoisseur ofNecropolis in Thebes-West and is editor of the series Der Alte Orient in the library of the Old World . He is a member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Works

  • The one and the many - ancient Egyptian gods. 6., completely revised and extended edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-14984-X ; 7th edition, von Zabern, Darmstadt / Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-8053-4364-0 .
  • Introduction to Egyptology: Stand - Methods - Tasks . 6th, unchanged edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2008.
  • Akhenaten: the religion of light . Patmos, Düsseldorf 2003, ISBN 3-491-69076-5 .
  • Spirit of the time of the pharaohs . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-7608-1215-5 .
  • Basic features of Egyptian history . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18779-2 .
  • Valley of the Kings. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-7608-0519-1 .
  • The valley of the kings. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-47995-2 .
  • The Egyptians' underworld books . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-86047-236-4 .
  • Ancient Egyptian Afterlife Books: An Introductory Overview . Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-89678-043-3 .
  • The Egyptians' Book of the Dead. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 1997 (unchanged photomechanical reprint of the 1979 edition) ISBN 3-7608-1037-3 .
  • The tomb of the Haremhab in the Valley of the Kings. (with the collaboration of F. Teichmann) Bern 1971.
  • The Tomb of Pharaoh Seti I. (German title: Das Grab Sethos I. ) Artemis, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-1047-0 .
  • The Egyptian myth of the heavenly cow. An etiology of the imperfect (= Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Vol. 46). 1982.
  • The Amduat: the writing of the hidden space. ed. based on texts from the graves of the New Reich, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1963–1967.
  • The night ride of the sun. New edition, Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-7608-1200-7 .

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SURNAME Hornung, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga