Hans Bonnet (Egyptologist)

Hans Bonnet (born February 22, 1887 in Hirschberg , † October 27, 1972 in Bonn ) was a German Egyptologist .

biography

Bonnet first studied classical philology in Breslau from 1906 , then Egyptology and archeology at the University of Leipzig from 1907 , where he received his doctorate in 1916 under Georg Steindorff , whose assistant he had been since 1910. In 1922 he completed his habilitation at the University of Halle , where he taught as a private lecturer until 1928. From 1928 until his retirement in 1955, he worked as a professor of Egyptology at the University of Bonn .

He retained his integrity even during the Nazi era . His teacher characterized him in 1945 in the so-called Steindorff list as one of the noblest people among the German Egyptologists, who had offered his Jewish teacher Steindorff protection and a hiding place after the “ Reichskristallnacht ”, among other things .

Bonnet's main areas of research were Egyptian archeology and, above all, religion . His real encyclopedia of Egyptian religious history , published in 1952, can be regarded as his main work .

title

• The ancient Egyptian costume , Leipzig 1916, DNB 571856691 (Dissertation University of Leipzig 1916, 44 pages, 6 plates, 4: original title The Egyptian costume until the end of the new empire , as: Studies on the history and archeology of Egypt . Volume 7, volume 2).
• The Egyptian costume up to the end of the New Kingdom (= studies on the history and antiquity of Egypt , 73 pages, volume 7, 9 plates, 4), Hinrichs, Leipzig 1917, DNB 57893289X .
• Egyptian literature , German Association for Books and Literature, Leipzig 1919, DNB 363903291
• Picture atlas on the history of religion Part: Delivery 2/4, Egyptian Religion , Deichert, Leipzig / Erlangen 1924, DNB 365286737 .
• The weapons of the peoples of the ancient Orient , JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1926, DNB 572474156 .
  • The weapons of the peoples of the ancient Orient , new edition Verlag Primus, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-8262-3012-7 , as pdf: ISBN 978-3-8262-4009-6 .
• An early historical burial ground near Abusir (= publications of the Ernst von Sieglin Expedition in Egypt , Volume 4), foreword: Georg Steindorff , Hinrichs, Leipzig 1928, DNB 579231690 .
• Real Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History , de Gruyter, Berlin 1952, DNB 450553388 .
  • 3rd unchanged edition, reprint, De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-082790-3 .

literature

• Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology. 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , pp. 67-68.
• Thomas Schneider : Egyptologists in the Third Reich. Biographical notes based on the so-called "Steindorff list". In: Journal of Egyptian History. Vol. 4, No. 2, 2011, pp. 109–216 = Egyptologists in the Third Reich. Biographical notes based on the so-called "Steindorff list". In: Thomas Schneider, Peter Raulwing (Ed.): Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich. Ideology, scholarship and individual biographies. Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24329-3 , pp. 120-247.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Bonnet in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Hans Bonnet in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis