Hanns Stock

Hanns Stock (born October 7, 1908 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm ; † July 23, 1966 near Buchloe ) was a German Egyptologist .

Stock attended grammar school in Dillingen an der Donau from 1920 to 1927 . He then studied philosophy and history at various German and foreign universities until 1933 and later switched to oriental languages and archeology . Finally , in 1940 , he received his doctorate from the University of Munich on the history and archeology of the 13th to 17th Egyptian dynasties, with special emphasis on the scarabs of this period .

1940–1941 Stock worked as a research assistant at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and from 1946 on at the Egyptian State Collection in Munich . In 1947 he qualified as a professor for Egyptology and the history of the ancient Orient and took on a teaching position at the University of Munich. In 1951 he was initially acting representative of the Chair of Egyptology and History and in the following year full professor and director of the Egyptian State Collection. In 1952 he also became a member of the central management of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In 1954, Stock played a key role in the re-establishment of the DAI department in Cairo . After three years of excavations in the solar sanctuary of Pharaoh Userkaf in Abusir , he took over its management in 1957. From 1959 to 1961 he directed the excavations in Amada and from 1961 to 1963 the relocation of the Mandulis Temple in Kalabsha, which was forced by the construction of the Aswan Dam .

Prime Minister Alfons Goppel honored Stock's services on December 7, 1964 with the award of the Bavarian Order of Merit . Stock died on July 23, 1966 in a traffic accident on federal highway 12 near Buchloe.

Publications

The first intermediate period in Egypt. 1949.
Studies in the history and archeology of the 13th to 17th Egyptian dynasties. With special reference to the scarabs of this interim period. Glückstadt 1955.
with Karl Georg Siegler: Kalabsha. The largest temple in Nubia and the adventure of its rescue. Wiesbaden 1965.

(Ed.): Egyptological research

literature

Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society. London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , p. 528.

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personal data
SURNAME	Stock, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 7, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm
DATE OF DEATH	July 23, 1966
Place of death	at Buchloe