Hans Wolfgang Müller

Hans Wolfgang Müller (born August 16, 1907 in Magdeburg , † February 6, 1991 in Tutzing ) was a German Egyptologist .

After graduating from high school in Magdeburg, Hans Wolfgang Müller began studying law at the University of Göttingen in 1926 , but switched to archeology , art history and Egyptology that same year ; he studied with Hermann Kees . From 1928 to 1930 he studied with Wilhelm Spiegelberg in Munich and 1930–1931 with Kurt Sethe in Berlin. From 1930 to 1937 he worked at the Egyptian Museum Berlin as a research assistant. For his doctorate in 1932 he returned to Munich to the institute, which was now headed by Alexander Scharff . In 1933/34 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 1937 he accompanied an expedition of the Marburg art historian Richard Hamann to Egypt and Nubia. He led excavations on the Egyptian rock mountain Qubbet el-Hawa , which he documented and published. He dealt extensively with the photographic documentation of Egyptian monuments. He was dismissed without notice in 1937 because of his lack of National Socialist sentiments and because of his wife's descent. During the war he served as a translator in North Africa, Italy and Hungary. After the end of the war he received his habilitation in Munich in 1946 and was a private lecturer until 1952 . From 1952 he held an extraordinary professorship at the University of Munich and finally took over the chair for Egyptology from Hanns Stock in 1958 . He also became part-time director of the Egyptian State Collection in Munich , which he systematically recorded, expanded and re-presented in exhibitions. From 1961 he worked as editor of the Egyptological Research and in 1962 founded the Munich Egyptological Studies. In total, he wrote more than 90 monographs on ancient Egyptian art, and he left an extensive photo archive.

Fonts (selection)

• The memorial stones of the Middle Kingdom: their genesis, their representations and their composition, dissertation, Vienna 1933
• The rock graves of the Princes of Elephantine from the time of the Middle Kingdom in 1940, used for the habilitation in 1946

literature

• Alfred Grimm :  Müller, Hans Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , pp. 401-403 ( digitized version ).
• Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society. London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , pp. 390-391.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Wolfgang Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• The HW Müller photo archive of the Heidelberg University Library
• Short biography with photo in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon
• The estate is in the Bavarian State Library