Hartwig Altenmüller

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Hartwig Altenmüller (born September 23, 1938 in Saulgau ) is a German Egyptologist . From 1971 to 2003 he was a professor at the University of Hamburg . From 1969 to 1982 he worked as an archaeologist in Saqqara and from 1984 to 1998 in the Valley of the Kings .

Life

Altenmüller comes from the family of an Upper Swabian high school teacher, whose second of eight children he was. In the 1950s the family moved to Rottweil, where Altenmüller attended the old-language Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium. In 1953 he entered the Evangelical Seminary in Maulbronn and in 1955 switched to the Evangelical Seminary in Blaubeuren , where he was taught by Hellmut Brunner and his wife Emma Brunner-Traut . In 1957 he left the monastery school with the Maturum ( Abitur ) in order to complete the study of classical philology in Tübingen and Munich . From 1960 he added the study of Egyptology and Classical Studies in Tübingen, Munich and Paris .

In 1964 he was in Munich with the topic The Apotropaia and the Gods of Central Egypt. A typological and religious-historical study of the so-called "magic knives" of the Middle Kingdom is doing his doctorate . He then went to the University of Hamburg , where he worked until 1969 as a research assistant at the Hamburg Seminar for History and Culture of the Middle East. In 1969/70 he worked for the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo with archaeological investigations in the necropolis of Saqqara and completed his habilitation in 1970 in Hamburg in the subject of Egyptology with a thesis on "The texts on the burial ritual in the pyramids of the Old Kingdom".

In 1971 he was appointed to the chair of Egyptology and in 1979, succeeding Wolfgang Helck, was appointed head of the Egyptology department of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg, a position he held until his retirement in 2003.

In 1988 he was invited to a visiting professorship at Sohag University (Egypt).

Publications (selection)

Altenmüller has made most of the contributions to the “Lexicon of Egyptology” since the 1970s. Furthermore, from 1974 he was editor of the magazine “Studies on Ancient Egyptian Culture”.

  • Concepts of the afterlife in Egypt. in: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen (Hrsg.): The scientific Bible lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex). 2006
  • Introduction to hieroglyphic writing. Buske, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-87548-373-1 .
  • The mummy cover of the Chonsu-maacheru. / Leather straps and leather pendants from the mummy of Chonsu-maacheru. / The mummy bandages of Chonsu-maacheru. In: Wulf Köpke, Bernd Schmelz (ed.): Old Egypt (= messages from the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg. NF Vol. 30). Holos, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-86097-540-4 , pp. 21-126.
  • The wall representations in the tomb of Mehu in Saqqara (= Archaeological Publications. Vol. 42). von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-0504-4 .
  • Third preliminary report on the work of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg on the grave of the Bay ( KV13 ) in the Valley of the Kings of Thebes. In: Studies on ancient Egyptian culture. Vol. 21, 1994, ISSN  0340-2215 , pp. 1-18.
  • Queen Tausret's grave ( KV14 ). Report on an archaeological undertaking. In: Göttinger Miscellen. H. 84, 1985, ISSN  0344-385X , pp. 7-17.
  • with Ahmed Mahmoud Moussa: The grave of Nianchchnum and Chnumhotep (= German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. Archaeological Publications. Vol. 21). von Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0050-6 .
  • with Ahmed M. Moussa: The tomb of Nefer and Ka-Hay (= Old kingdom tombs at the causeway of King Unas at Saqqara = German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. Archaeological Publications. Vol. 5, ISSN  2190-5843 ). von Zabern, Mainz 1971.

literature

  • Nicole Kloth, Hartwig Altenmüller, Karl Martin, Eva Pardey (eds.): It will be put down as a document. Festschrift for Hartwig Altenmüller on his 65th birthday. Buske, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3875483413 .

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personal data
SURNAME Altenmüller, Hartwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Saulgau