Friederike Seyfried

Friederike Seyfried , also Friederike Kampp-Seyfried , née Friederike Kampp , (born November 19, 1960 in Mosbach ) is a German Egyptologist .

Friederike Seyfried studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Vienna since 1980 and was employed by Jan Assmann in Heidelberg in 1991 with the work Die Thebanische Nekropole. To the change of the grave idea from the XVIII. until XX. PhD from Dynasty . She then worked there from 1991 to 1994 as a research assistant and excavation manager for the Heidelberg Ramessid project in Thebes . She then became an assistant at the Institute for Egyptology at Heidelberg University. In 1999 she went to the University of Leipzig where she was the curator of the Egyptian Museum at the University of Leipzig . At the end of June 2009, Seyfried was unanimously appointed by the Board of Trustees to succeed Dietrich Wildung as director of the Egyptian Museum Berlin from August 2009 . At the beginning of her tenure, the Egyptian Museum reopened in the Neues Museum . Seyfried has experience in field research , the management and organization of archaeological collections and in the evaluation of excavation findings. Since 2011 she has been an honorary professor at the Egyptological Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

She is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts (selection)

• The Theban necropolis. To the change of the grave idea from the XVIII. until XX. Dynasty (= Thebes. Vol. 13). von Zabern, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-8053-1506-6 .
• with Antje Spiekermann: Giza. Excavations in the cemetery of the Great Pyramid by Georg Steindorff (= Small Writings of the Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig. Vol. 6). Egyptian Museum, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-934178-24-3 .
• Grasping ancient Egypt. 40 points of contact for sighted and blind people. Egyptian Museum / German Central Library for the Blind, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-934178-56-1 .

Web links

• Literature by Friederike Seyfried in the catalog of the German National Library
• New head of the Egyptian Museum . In: Berliner Morgenpost from June 27, 2009.
• Gabriela Walde: Nefertiti's new boss . In: Berliner Morgenpost. dated August 26, 2009.
• Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Museum and the City of February 4, 2019: Help for the “Temple of Egyptology” , an interview by Sven Stienen