Hanna Jenni

Hanna Jenni is a Swiss Egyptologist .

Life

She studied Egyptology, Islamic Studies and Old Testament Studies in Basel and Paris . She worked at the Swiss Institute for Egyptian Building Research and Archeology in Cairo (1988–1991). She has lectured as a lecturer for Semitic languages ​​at the Theological Faculty of the University of Basel since 1994 . From 1994 to 1996 she worked on the Sources on the History of the Nabataeans project of the SNSF . She has been teaching Egyptology at the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Basel since 1996. She has been working on the MISR: Mission Siptah - Ramses X project at the University of Basel's Egyptological Department since 1998 . She has been teaching Egyptology at the University of Zurich since 2005. She has been working on the Sources for the History of the Phoenicians Project of the SNSF since 2006. After completing her habilitation in 2008, she became a private lecturer in Egyptology and Semitic Linguistics at the University of Basel and, in 2014, Titular Professor of Egyptology and Semitic Linguistics at the request of the Faculty of Philosophy and History and the Faculty of Theology at the University of Basel.

She is a member

• of the Commission of the Voluntary Academic Society (FAG) Basel (since 1997)
• of the FAG Fund for the Promotion of the Humanities (Head) (since 2004)
• of the M.-E. Preiswerk-Dixon-Fonds of FAG (since 2004)
• as President of the Fritz Sarasin Foundation of FAG (since 2012)
• as President of the Board of Trustees of the Theological Alumneum Basel (since 2018).
• of the Council of the International Association of Egyptologists (IAE) as national representative of Switzerland , August 2015 - July 2019.

Fonts (selection)

• as translator: Thomas Garnet Henry James : Pharaoh's people. Life in Ancient Egypt . Artemis-Verlag, Zurich / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7608-0745-3 .
  • as translator: Thomas Garnet Henry James: Pharaoh's people. Life in Ancient Egypt . 2nd edition, Artemis-Verlag, Zurich / Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7608-0745-3 .
  • as translator: Thomas Garnet Henry James: Pharaoh's people. Life in Ancient Egypt . Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7632-3570-1 .
  • as translator: Thomas Garnet Henry James: Pharaoh's people. Life in Ancient Egypt . DTV, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-11454-1 .
• The decoration of the Temple of Khnum on Elephantine by Nektanebos II. (= Elephantine. Excavation of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo in cooperation with the Swiss Institute for Egyptian Building Research and Classical Studies in Cairo. Volume 17) (= Archaeological Publications. German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. Volume 90 ). von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-1984-3 (also dissertation, Basel 1993).
• as editor: The grave of Ramses X. (KV 18) (= Aegyptiaca Helvetica. Volume 16). Schwabe, Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7965-1717-X .
• with Ursula Hackl and Christoph Schneider: Sources on the history of the Nabataeans. Text collection with translation and commentary (NTOA 51). Friborg / Göttingen 2003. ISBN 3-7278-1410-1 .
• Textbook of the Classical Egyptian Language . Schwabe, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-7965-2669-5 .
• as editor: On the modern history of the Valley of the Kings. Conference in Basel on September 1, 2007 with contributions on the grave of Ramses X. (KV 18) and on finds from modern times (= Aegyptiaca Helvetica. Volume 25). Schwabe, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7965-3385-3 .
• as editor: charity and fear of God. Contributions from Old Testament, Semitic and Old Orientalist science for Hans-Peter Mathys on his 65th birthday (= Old Orient and Old Testament. Volume 439). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 2016, ISBN 3-86835-208-2 .

Web links

• University of Basel