Frank Kammerzell

Frank Kammerzell (born April 21, 1961 in Asbach ) is a German Egyptologist who specializes in Egyptological linguistics and a professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

From 1980, Kammerzell first studied Medieval and Modern History, later Egyptology, Coptology , General and Indo-European Linguistics and Assyriology . Between 1983 and 1990 he worked as a freelance translator. From 1987 to 1989, Kammerzell held a graduate scholarship from the state of Lower Saxony and received his doctorate from the Georg-August University in Göttingen with a thesis on the subject of studies on the language and history of the Karer people in Egypt . In 1991 he became a research assistant and then assistant and senior assistant at the seminar for Egyptology and Coptology. His habilitation was on language contact and language change in ancient Egypt . In spring 1999 he did a research stay at the Department of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , and in 2002 he was visiting professor at the University of Vienna . In 2003, Kammerzell was appointed to a professorship at the seminar for archeology and cultural history of Northeast Africa at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Kammerzell deals with the phonology , morphology , syntax and lexicons of the Egyptian language , linguistic history and diachronic typology of Egyptian, language contact and linguistic affinities, origin, system, use and history of writing, the history of the Carians in Egypt and the history of research. He also works as a translator. Together with Friedrich Junge and Antonio Loprieno , Kammerzell founded the journal Lingua Aegyptia - Journal of Egyptian Language Studies , of which he is still one of the editors to this day. The journal appears at the Department of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen.

Fonts

• Studies on the language and history of the Carians in Egypt (= Göttingen Orient Research. Series 4: Egypt. Vol. 27). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-447-03411-4 (also: Göttingen, Universität, dissertation, 1990).
• Panther, lion and language development in the Neolithic. Remarks on the etymology of the Egyptian theonym M3fd.t, on the formation of some predatory names in Egyptian and on individual big cat names in Indo-European languages. Dedicated to Wolfhart Westendorf on his seventieth birthday (= Lingua Aegyptia. Studia monographica. Bd. 1, ISSN  0946-8641 ). Seminar for Egyptology and Coptic Studies, Göttingen 1994.

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