Günter Grimm

Günter Grimm (born May 18, 1940 , † September 17, 2010 in Gusterath ) was a German classical archaeologist .

Grimm received his doctorate in 1969 at the University of Frankfurt with a thesis on the Roman mummy masks from Egypt. From 1970 to 1974 he was a consultant at the Cairo department of the German Archaeological Institute . From 1975 until his retirement in 2008 he was Professor of Classical Archeology at the University of Trier . Grimm's main areas of research were Greco-Roman Egypt, especially the city of Alexandria , and the reception of antiquities. In Trier he founded - together with the ancient historian Heinz Heinen and the Egyptologist Erich Winter - the research center "Greco-Roman Egypt".

Fonts

• The evidence of the Egyptian religion and art elements in Roman Germany . Brill, Leiden 1969.
• The Roman mummy masks from Egypt . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1974, ISBN 3-515-01828-X .
• Art from the Ptolemaic and Roman times in the Cairo Egyptian Museum . Zabern, Mainz 1975.
• Tuna el-Gebel 1913–1973. An excavation by the German architect W. Honroth and recent investigations in Hermopolis-West (Tanis Superior) . In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologische Institut Kairo 31 (1975), pp. 221–236.
• Alexandria. The first royal city in the Hellenistic world. Pictures from the Nile metropolis from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra VII. Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2328-X .
• From love to the ancient world. Small fonts . Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3556-3 .
• Heroes. Gods. Charlatans - expectations of salvation and saviors of antiquity . Zabern, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-8053-3836-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Grimm in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary ( memento from July 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )