Heike Sternberg-el Hotabi

Heike Sternberg-el Hotabi (* 1955 ) is a German Egyptologist .

Life

Sternberg-el Hotabi studied Egyptology, Coptic Studies and Assyriology at the Universities of Göttingen and Tübingen from 1974 to 1978 and completed her master's degree in 1980. From 1980 to 1982 she was a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 13 “Syncretism Research” at the University of Göttingen. In 1983 she received her doctorate in Tübingen and received a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation (until 1986), supported from 1985 by a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . From 1988 to 1990 she was a freelancer at the German Archaeological Institute, Egypt Department, in Cairo . From 1992 to 1995 she was a postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation and completed her habilitation in 1999 in Göttingen.

In 1999 she represented the Basel Chair for Egyptology. From 1999 to 2005 she was director of the DFG-funded project “Prosopographical Lexicon of Non-Royal Women of the New Kingdom”. Since 2000 she has been a visiting professor at the University of Graz and an adjunct professor at the Department of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at the University of Göttingen . Contributions to the Egyptological Discussion ”, which appear every three months.

Sternberg-el Hotabi focuses on the Greco-Roman times of Egypt, Egyptian religious history and women's studies. She is a member of the Graduate College 896 “Images of Gods - Images of God - Images of the World. Polytheism and Monotheism in the Ancient World ”, where she heads the sub-project“ The Goddess Isis and Fate in the Ancient Egyptian Religion ”. She is also a member of the working group “Religious History and Religious Contacts in the Old Testament at the Time of the Achaemenids”. She is a second member of the Centers Cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean in Antiquity and the Centrum Orbis Orientalis. Center for Semitic and Related Studies .

Publications (selection)

• Catalog of the mythical motifs in the temple of Kom Ombo (housework for obtaining the MA) Göttingen 1979.
• Mythical motifs and myth formation in the Egyptian temples and papyri of the Greco-Roman times (= Göttingen Orient Research. IV. Series: Egypt, Volume 14). Göttingen 1985.
• with Frank Kammerzell: A hymn to the goddess Hathor and the ritual "Hathor offering the libation" according to the temple texts of the Greco-Roman times (= Rites Egyptiens. Vol. VII). Brussels 1992.
• The propylon of the Temple of Month in Karnak-Nord. On the decoration principle of the gate and the translation and commentary of the documents VIII., Texts No. 1 to No. 50. (= Göttinger Orientforschungen. Vol. IV. Series: Egypt, Volume 25). Göttingen 1993.
• Investigations into the transmission history of the Horus steles. A contribution to the religious history of Egypt in the 1st millennium BC BC (= Egyptological treatises. Vol. 62). Wiesbaden 1999.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heike Sternberg-el Hotabi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sternberg-el Hotabi at the University of Göttingen