Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert

Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (born September 2, 1954 in Hage ) is a German Egyptologist .

Fischer-Elfert studied Egyptology , Hittitology and ethnology at the universities of Hamburg and Tübingen between 1976 and 1982 . In 1985 he received his doctorate in Hamburg . From 1986 to 1987 he was a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg and then until 1989 research assistant at the "Directory of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany". From 1989 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the University of Würzburg , where he completed his habilitation in 1994 . In 1996 he went to the École pratique des hautes études of the Sorbonne in Paris as Maître de conférences . In 1997 he was a deputy professor at the University of Leipzig for six months and then until 1998 a research grant from the German Research Foundation . 1998–99 he was appointed professor at the University of Heidelberg until he became a full professor at the Egyptological Institute of the University of Leipzig in October 1999 . As such, he is also the managing director of the Egyptian Museum at Leipzig University . He interrupted his work there in the winter semester 2003/04 and 2009/10 for a visiting professorship at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut) .

Fischer-Elfert is co-editor of the magazine for Egyptian language and antiquity (ZÄS) . His main research interests are ancient Egyptian literature , magic and medicine.

On February 12, 2010, Fischer-Elfert was elected a full member of the philological-historical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.

Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert is the brother of the artist and documentary filmmaker Ralf-Peter Post .

Fonts

The satirical polemic of the Papyrus Anastasi I. Text compilation. 1983; 2nd expanded edition, 1992.
The satirical polemic of the Papyrus Anastasi I. Translation and commentary. 1986.
Literary ostraka of the Ramesside period in translation. 1986.
with Günter Burkard : Egyptian manuscripts part 4 (= directory of oriental manuscripts in Germany. Vol. 19, 4). 1994,
Findings from reading in the literary quarry of Deir el-Medineh. 1997.
The vision of the statue in the stone. Studies on the ancient Egyptian mouth opening ritual. 1998.
A man's teaching to his son. A stage on the "path to God" of the loyal and solidary officials of the Middle Kingdom. 2 vols. 1999.
Away from Ma'at. Case studies on outsiders in ancient Egypt. 2005.
Ancient Egyptian spells. Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-018375-8 .

Ebers papyrus and ancient medicine. Files from the conference from March 15th to March 16th, 2002 in the Albertina / UB of the University of Leipzig (= Philippika, Marburg antiquity treatises. Vol. 7). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05209-0 .
with Stefan Lehmann : researcher - pastor - collector. The Egyptian Antiquities of Dr. Julius Kurth from the holdings of the Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University in Halle (= Small Writings of the Egyptian Museum "Georg Steindorff" of the University of Leipzig. Volume 8). Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86583-584-0 .
with Stefan Lehmann: Aegyptiaca and papyri from the Julius Kurth collection. Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, inventory catalog volume 1. Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-134-2 .

↑ Ralf-Peter Post: Handwritten countersigned printout of the Wikipedia article version about himself in Wikipedia.