Hans Goedicke

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Hans G. Goedicke (born August 7, 1926 in Vienna , † February 24, 2015 in Towson , Maryland ) was an Austrian Egyptologist .

Life

After his military service, Hans Goedicke studied at the University of Vienna from 1945 , where he received his doctorate in 1949. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as an assistant at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna before going to the United States . From 1952 to 1957 he was an assistant at Brown University , then he worked for UNESCO at the Abu Simbel Temple for a year . In 1958/59 he worked as an assistant at the University of Göttingen and taught Egyptology at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore from 1960 , first as a lecturer, from 1962 as assistant professor, from 1966 as associate professor and from 1968 as full professor. From 1968 to 1973 and 1979 to 1984 he headed the Department of Near Eastern Studies there.

Hans Goedicke was mainly active in the fields of the Egyptian language and epigraphy, especially for the time of the Old Kingdom , but also carried out archaeological projects in Egypt, such as an epigraphic survey in Aswan , Gharb Aswan and Gebel Tingar (1964, 1967), excavations in the necropolis of Giza (1972, 1974) and a survey in Wadi Tumilat (1977, 1978, 1981).

Publications (selection)

  • The position of the king in the Old Kingdom . Harrassowitz. Wiesbaden 1960.
  • Ostraka Michaelides . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1962.
  • Royal documents from the Old Kingdom (= Ägyptologische Abhandlungen Vol. 14). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1967.
  • The private legal inscriptions from the Old Kingdom . Notring publishing house of the Austrian scientific associations, Vienna 1970.
  • Re-Used Blocks from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht (= The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. Volume 20). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1971 ( digitized version ).
  • The story of the shipwrecked man . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1974.
  • The representation of Horus . Publishing house of the Association of Austrian Scientific Societies, Vienna 1982.
  • The Quarrel of Apophis and Seqenenreˁ. Van Siclen Books, San Antonio 1986, ISBN 978-0-933175-06-8 .
  • The Battle of Megiddo. Halgo, Baltimore 2000, ISBN 1-89284-001-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Goedicke, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goedicke, Hans G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2015
Place of death Towson , Maryland , United States