Günther Hölbl

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Günther Hölbl (born November 12, 1947 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Egyptologist and ancient historian .

Günther Hölbl studied at the University of Vienna first Latin and history teacher. In 1972 he obtained his master's degree. This was followed by a doctoral degree in Egyptology and Classical Philology . He received his doctorate in 1975, and in 1978 he became university lecturer for Hellenistic and Roman Egypt at the University of Vienna. In 1982 he completed his habilitation in Egyptology and was appointed university lecturer. Until 2012 he taught at the Institute for Ancient History and at the Institute for Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Since 1983, Hölbl has also taught at the University of Salzburg , from 2004 on at the Institute Beni Culturali at the University of Catania in Syracuse . In 1998 he was appointed associate professor in Vienna. His main occupation was from 1983 to 1993 research assistant at the Egyptian Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and from 1993 to 2003 curator at the Egyptian-Oriental Collection of the Art History Museum in Vienna.

Günther Hölbl's specialist areas are the history and culture of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Another main area of ​​work is research into the spread of ancient Egyptian culture and religion in the Mediterranean region.

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  • Evidence of Egyptian religious ideas for Ephesus. Brill, Leiden 1978, ISBN 90-04-05688-2 .
  • Relations between Egyptian culture and ancient Italy. 2 volumes, Brill, Leiden 1979, ISBN 90-04-05487-1 .
  • Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. Le stele funerarie della Collezione Egizia. Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma 1985, ISBN 8824030211 .
  • Egyptian cultural property in Phoenician and Punic Sardinia. 2 volumes, Brill, Leiden 1986, ISBN 90-04-07182-2 .
  • Egyptian cultural property on the islands of Malta and Gozo in Phoenician and Punic times. The objects in the Archaeological Museum of Valletta . Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1989 (= session reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Volume 538; Studies on Egyptian Cultural Property in the Mediterranean Area. Volume 1; Publications of the Egyptian Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Number 1) ISBN 3- 7001-1637-3 .
  • History of the Ptolemaic Empire. Politics, ideology and religious culture from Alexander the great to the Roman conquest. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-534-10422-6 (reviewed reprint 2004, ISBN 3-534-17675-8 , English 2002).
  • Ancient Egypt in the Roman Empire. The Roman Pharaoh and his temples.
    • Vol. 1: Roman politics and ancient Egyptian ideology from Augustus to Diocletian, temple building in Upper Egypt (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology . ). von Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2392-1 .
    • Vol. 2: The temples of Roman Nubia (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology. ). von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3396-X .
    • Vol. 3; Sanctuaries and religious life in the Egyptian deserts and oases (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology. ). von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3512-1 .

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SURNAME Hölbl, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna