Günter Vittmann

Günter Vittmann (born February 29, 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Egyptologist and demotist .

Career

Günter Vittmann studied Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna from 1972 to 1976 and was employed at the Oriental Institute of the University of Vienna from 1976 to 1978. In 1977 he was in Vienna with the work of priests and officials in Thebes the late period of his doctorate . From 1978 to 2000 he worked on the project Demotic Name Book and from 1984 to 1997 lecturer for Egyptian-Arabic at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Würzburg . In 1994 Vittmann completed his habilitation there with a new edition of the demotic papyrus Rylands 9 , a long petition by an Egyptian priest from the time of Darius I.Since 2000 he has been a member of the project Database of Demotic Texts at the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature . In 2001 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Würzburg. In 2011 he was awarded the Rudolf Meimberg Prize .

Günter Vittmann is married and has two children.

Monographs

• Priests and officials in Thebes of the Late Period. Genealogical and prosopographical studies of the Theban priesthood and civil service of the 25th and 26th dynasties (= contributions to Egyptology. Vol. 1). Vienna 1978.
• “Giants” and gigantic beings in the imagination of the Egyptians (= contributions to Egyptology. Vol. 13). Vienna 1995.
• The demotic papyrus Rylands 9. 2 volumes (= Egypt and Old Testament. Vol. 38). Wiesbaden 1998.
• Ancient Egyptian way metaphors (= contributions to Egyptology. Vol. 15). Vienna 1999.
• Egypt and the foreigners in the first millennium BC (= cultural history of the old world. Vol. 97). Mainz 2003.
• "You have satisfied my heart ...". Ptolemaic demotic documents from Soknopaiu Nesos (together with M. Schentuleit), Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, XXIX. Berlin / New York 2009.

literature

• Sandra Luisa Lippert , Maren Schentuleit and Martin Andreas Stadler as editors: Sapientia Felicitas. Festschrift for Günter Vittmann on February 29, 2016 (= CENiM. Volume 14). Equipe "Égypte nilotique et méditerranéenne", Montpellier 2016, OCLC 964395795 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Vittmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Würzburg