Günther Roeder

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Günther Roeder (born August 2, 1881 in Schwiebus ; † November 6, 1966 in Cairo ) was a German Egyptologist and museum director in Hildesheim and Berlin .

Life

Roeder studied first at the University of Jena , later in Berlin with Adolf Erman . In 1904 he was with a thesis on The preposition in the development of the Egyptian language doctorate . He worked at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin and published, among other things, inscriptions from the collection. From 1903 to 1908 he worked at the Berlin office as a research assistant and from 1913 to 1914 as a permanent employee of the Berlin dictionary . Here he first wrote for Kurt Sethe . From 1907 to 1911 he worked for the Egyptian Antiquities Service . For many years he worked under Gaston Maspero at the Nubian temples Debod , Kalabsha and Dakka , as well as at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo . In 1914 he completed his habilitation at the University of Breslau , where he worked as a private lecturer and was appointed professor in December 1916.

Roeder was director of the Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim from 1915 to 1945 . Between 1929 and 1939 he directed the excavations in Hermopolis for the museum . The second volume on these finds, Amarna reliefs from Hermopolis , he could no longer complete himself. This was done in 1969 by Rainer Hanke, who edited it for Günther Roeder.

From 1940 to 1945 Roeder was also director of the Egyptian Museum of the State Museums in Berlin. After the end of the war, he taught Egyptology at the University of Göttingen . He made valuable contributions to the study of the religion of ancient Egypt.

Awards and honors

Publications (selection)

  • Debod to Bab Kalabsche . Cairo 1911
  • From the life of distinguished Egyptians , 1912 ( digitized version ).
  • Guide to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (1912) with Gaston Maspero
  • Egyptian. Practical introduction to hieroglyphics and the Egyptian language. Clavis linguarum semiticarum 6th (1913), 2nd edition published in 1925 (also in English)
  • Egyptian inscriptions from the Royal Museums in Berlin , Volume 1, 1913.
  • The Dakke Temple (1913-1930)
  • Naos. Catalog Général du Musée du Caire (1914)
  • Documents on the religion of ancient Egypt. Translated and introduced by Günther Roeder (1915), 2nd edition 1923.
  • Guide to the Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim (1915), 4th edition 1923.
  • Guide through Hildesheim (1919), 9th edition; (1922), 10th edition
  • Egyptians and Hittites (1919)
  • The monuments of the Palizaeus Museum in Hildesheim (1921)
  • The sun hymn. Amenhotep IV (1923)
  • Egyptian inscriptions from the Royal Museums in Berlin. Vol. 2. Inscriptions of the New Reich (1924)
  • Guide to the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo (1926)
  • Ancient Egyptian Tales and Fairy Tales (1927)
  • The mastaba of Uhemka in the Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim (1927)
  • Egypt as a field for anthropological research (1927), with Percy E. Newberry
  • Preliminary report on the excavations in Hermopolis 1929–1930 (Deutsche Hermopolis Expedition) , Hildesheim (1931)
  • Statues of Egyptian queens (1932)
  • Egyptian bronze works in the Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim (1937)
  • The rock temple of Bet el-Wali (1938)
  • A decade of German excavations in Egypt (1951)
  • Popular belief in the Pharaonic Empire (1952)
  • Egyptian bronze figures Volume II (1956)
  • The Egyptian religion in texts and pictures. (4 volumes, 1959–1961)
    • Vol. 1 The Egyptian Gods (1959)
    • Vol. 2 Myths and legends about Egyptian deities and pharaohs (1960)
    • Vol. 3 Cults, Oracle and Worship of Nature in Ancient Egypt (1960)
    • Vol. 4 The end of the Egyptian religion with reformation, sorcery and belief in the afterlife (1961)
  • Hermopolis. Vol. 1 (1959)
  • Hermopolis. Vol. 2. Amarna reliefs from Hermopolis (1969)

In addition, Roeder has published numerous Egyptological articles in specialist journals, including the Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprach und Altertumskunde , the journal of the German Oriental Society , research and progress and the yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute .

literature

  • Baudouin van de Walle: Günther Roeder, 1881–1966. In: Chronique d'Egypte. Vol. 42, 1967, ISSN  0009-6067 , pp. 125-128.
  • Warren R. Dawson, Eric P. Uphill: Who was who in Egyptology . 3rd revised edition, Egypt Exploration Society, London 1995, ISBN 0-85698-125-7 , p. 361.
  • Herbert Reyer: The Egyptologist Günther Roeder 1881-1966. Biographical sketch of a Hildesheim museum director with a list of his writings . In: "Enough for decoration ..." Festschrift Bettina Schmitz for her 60th birthday on July 24th, 2008 . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2008, pp. 187-216.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contributor to the Berlin office of the dictionary project .
personal data
SURNAME Roeder, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwiebus
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1966
Place of death Cairo