Francis Breyer

Francis Amadeus Karl Breyer (* 1977 ) is a German Egyptologist .

From 1996 to 2001 he studied Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and General Linguistics at the University of Tübingen , where he then worked as assistant to Wolfgang Schenkel until 2002 . Subsequently, he took part in the research project Language Contact and Cultural Influence. Non-Semitic loanwords in Egyptian under the direction of Thomas Schneider . In 2005 he received his PhD in Egypt and Anatolia. Political, material and linguistic relations between the Nile Valley and Asia Minor in the 2nd millennium BC . AD at the University of Basel PhD. From 2006 to 2007 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute , during which he undertook a one-year scientific research trip from North Africa to China. In 2010/2011 he was a substitute professor for Egyptology at the University of Vienna . In 2013 he became a punt with his work . The search for the land of God qualified as a professor at the University of Bonn and was awarded the double venia legendi Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. He is currently working on a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Basel on Egyptian names and words in the Bible.

Breyer's main research interests are the ancient Egyptian language and writing, in particular language contacts and loanword research. In addition, he deals with the history of Aksum , the Meroitic language and research on the land of Punt . He also made epigraphic recordings of various inscriptions in Egypt and Aksum. Breyer is also trained as an opera singer .

Writings (books)

• Tanutamani. The dream stele and its surroundings ( Egypt and Old Testament. Volume 57). Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, 2003.
• Egypt and Anatolia. Political, material and linguistic relations between the Nile Valley and Asia Minor in the 2nd millennium BC Chr. Publisher of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: Vienna, 2010.
• The kingdom of Aksum. History and Archeology of Abyssinia in Late Antiquity. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 2012.
• Old Akkadian Elementary Book ( Subsidia et Instrumenta Linguarum Orientis Volume 3) Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, 2014.
• Introduction to Meroitistics ( Introductions and source texts on Egyptology , Volume 8) Lit Verlag: Münster, 2014.
• Punt. The search for the “land of God” ( Culture and History of Ancient Near East , Volume 80). Brill: Leiden, Boston, 2016.

Web links

• Free University of Berlin: Francis Breyer ( Memento from February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• DAI Globetrotter: Francis Breyer