Friedhelm Hoffmann

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Friedhelm Hoffmann (born May 12, 1966 in Moers ) is a German Egyptologist .

Education and career

After graduating from high school in Moers in 1985 and completing military service in the 1986/1987 winter semester, Hoffmann began studying Egyptology, Latin and German at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . He completed this in 1991 with the master's thesis "Egyptians and Amazons, a revision of two demotic papyri". He then worked on his dissertation on the "Papyrus Krall" and its position in the so-called "Inaros-Petubastis cycle" and completed postgraduate studies in linguistic information and word processing from 1992 to 1993. The doctorate took place in 1994.

From 1994 to 1996 Friedhelm Hoffmann worked on the demotic- language ostraca finds of the DAI excavation in Elephantine and the demotic papyri in the collection of the Carsten-Niebuhr-Institute in the context of research and training grants from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) Copenhagen . He then worked as a research assistant until January 2002 (then until July 2002 as senior research assistant) at the Institute for Egyptology at the University of Würzburg. It was there that his habilitation thesis “Word and Image. Texts and studies on the Egyptian description of statues ”, on the basis of which he received the license to teach at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 2002 . There he worked as a private lecturer until 2007 and received a scholarship from the DFG's Heisenberg program . Subsequently, he was re-qualified at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where Hoffmann was also an employee of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a global context” from 2008 to 2010 .

In the 2009/2010 winter semester he was the professor for the history of science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , and in the 2010 summer semester for Egyptology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. On September 1, 2010, he was appointed to succeed Günter Burkard as the holder of the professorship he had previously represented. In this function he is the head of the Institute for Egyptology and Coptic Studies at the university. Since the 2013/2014 winter semester, Hoffmann has also been the board member and spokesman of the ArchaeoBioCenter at the University of Munich, and board member and deputy spokesman for the Munich Center for Ancient Worlds since the 2014/2015 winter semester .

Fonts

The following list only includes the published monographs. A complete list, which also includes the editorships, articles and other publications, can be found on Hoffmann's website at the LMU Munich.

  • Egyptians and Amazons. Revised two demotic papyri. P. Vindob. D 6165 and P. Vindob. D 6165 A (= messages from Archduke Rainer's papyrus collection. New series, volume 24). Hollinek Brothers, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-851-19259-1 .
  • The battle for the armor of Inaros. Studies on P. Krall and his position within the Inaros-Petubastis cycle (= messages from the Archduke Rainer papyrus collection. New series, volume 26). Hollinek Brothers, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-851-19265-6 .
  • Egypt. Culture and life in Greco-Roman times. A representation according to the demotic sources (= study books history and culture of the old world ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-050-03308-8 .
  • with Matthias Steinhart : Animals from the Nile. Terracottas from Greco-Roman Egypt (= Egyptian terracottas in Würzburg [Gütte donation]. Issue 1). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-895-00225-9 .
  • with Joachim Friedrich Quack : Anthology of demotic literature (= introductions and source texts on Egyptology. Volume 4). Lit, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-825-80762-7 .
  • with Martina Minas-Nerpel and Stefan Pfeiffer : The trilingual stele of C. Cornelius Gallus. Translation and commentary (= Archive for Papyrus Research . Supplement 9). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-110-20120-8 .
  • with Matthias Steinhart: Greek and Egyptian gods (= Egyptian terracottas in Würzburg [donation Gütte]. Book 2: Gods I ). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-954-90207-1 .

Hoffmann is co-editor of the specialist journal for demotistics and coptology " Enchoria " (since volume 28, which appeared in 2002/2003), the specialist journal "Münchner Ägyptologische Studien" (MÄS, since volume 57 " Ugarit-Verlag "), as well as the series of publications "Fotografie und Archeology "(since volume 2, which appeared in 2012) and" Tuna el-Gebel "(since volume 3, which appeared in 2011).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Friedhelm Hoffmann newly appointed. Announcement from the Institute for Egyptology and Coptic Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from August 19, 2010, accessed on November 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ Friedhelm Hoffmann on the ArchaeoBioCenter website , accessed on November 5, 2017.
  3. ↑ Friedhelm Hoffmann's list of publications (PDF; 64 KB) , accessed on November 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Moers