Friedrich Rösch (Egyptologist)

Friedrich Rösch (born August 1, 1883 in Backnang , † August 29, 1914 in Raon-l'Étape , France ) was a German missionary and Egyptologist .

Rösch first began studying the Coptic language . In his dissertation from 1909 he dealt with the Coptic dialect Achmimisch . In 1910 he published the Achmimic fragments of Clement's First Epistle that had been found in Strasbourg . He then worked for three years as a missionary in the American Mission in Algeria . During this time he studied the Berber languages . A work he had planned in this context on the grammar of the Kabyle language remained unrealized. Several times he was employed in the Egyptian Department of the Royal Museums in Berlin, where he came into contact with classical archeology. In 1913 he accepted an assistant position in the department of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo , for which he participated in excavations at Tell el Amarna in the winter of 1913/14 . In the summer of 1914, Rösch was drafted to take part in the First World War. He died in fighting in France in late August 1914.

literature

• Friedrich Rösch . In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity . Volume 52, 1914, p. 131.
• Friedrich Rösch (Ed. And Übers :): Fragments of the first Clement's letter based on the Achmimic papyrus of the Strasbourg University and State Library. With biblical texts from the same handwriting. Schlesier & Schweikhardt in Strasbourg in 1910.