Friedrich Junge (Egyptologist)

Friedrich Junge (born April 18, 1941 in Bad Reinerz ) is a German Egyptologist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Junge studied Egyptology, Semitic Studies / Islamic Studies and Classical Archeology at the universities of Munich , Heidelberg and Göttingen . After receiving his doctorate in 1970, he was appointed visiting instructor at the University of Chicago . From 1974 to 1976 he was a research assistant at the German Archaeological Institute ( Cairo department ). In 1976 he completed his habilitation with his work “Syntax of the Middle Egyptian Literary Language”, a milestone in the development of the so-called standard theory of Middle Egyptian syntax. Finally, in 1980 he was appointed full professor of Egyptology in Göttingen. He retired on October 1, 2006. Since 2000 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Junge is editor of sub-series IV (Egypt) of the "Göttingen Orient Research". His main research interests are the Egyptian language , literature and religion. Currently (since 2000) he is working on a presentation of the social-ethical discourse in the literature of the Middle Kingdom. He is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . Since 1999 he has been working with Heike Sternberg-el Hotabi on the DFG-funded project “Prosopographical Lexicon of Non-Royal Women of the New Kingdom”, of which he has been director since 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Junge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Junge at the University of Göttingen