Helmut Satzinger

Helmut Georg Satzinger (born January 21, 1938 in Linz ) is an Austrian Egyptologist and Coptologist .

Life

Satzinger spent childhood and youth in Upper Austria . He has lived in Vienna since 1956 , apart from two interludes in Cairo (one year) and in Berlin (five years). He studied Egyptology , Arabic and African Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Cairo , and received his doctorate in Vienna in 1964.

From 1964 to 1969, Satzinger was busy cataloging and publishing the Coptic papyri at the Egyptian Museum in West Berlin . In 1969 he was appointed curator of the Egyptian-Oriental Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna , and in 1977 he was appointed director of the collection. In 1978, Satzinger completed his habilitation in Egyptology at the University of Vienna with the thesis “New Egyptian Studies. The particles ir - The tense system ”. Since then he has continuously lectured, in particular the courses Middle Egyptian and New Egyptian , Egyptian epigraphy , Egyptian art and Egyptian museum studies .

In 1978 he was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for the Humanities . In 1989 he received the title of associate professor. In 1996 he received the title of Hofrat . In 2003 he retired due to age.

Helmut Satzinger held visiting professorships or gave guest lectures at the University of Hamburg (1980), the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (1993), the University of Cairo (2000) and the University of Belgrade (2004, 2005).

Act

Satzinger's scientific oeuvre is partly linked to his museum career. In addition to collection guides and catalogs, he published in the epigraphic and prosopographical field ( Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum ). No less important is his linguistic work, in which he feels actively committed to the school of Hans Jacob Polotsky . In addition, there are editions of non-literary texts as well as dialectological works and Old Coptic in the field of Coptology. In old age he increasingly turned to Afro-Asian linguistic research . To date, Satzinger has supervised twelve doctoral dissertations and eighteen master’s theses, he has supervised ten research projects at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, most of which were financed by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research in Vienna.

Fonts

Monographs and Catalogs

Coptic Documents III. Egyptian documents from the Berlin State Museums. Berlin 1968.
The negative constructions in ancient and middle Egyptian. Berlin 1968. (Munich Egyptological Studies 12.)
Akhenaten - Nefertiti - Tutankhamun. Vienna 1975
New Egyptian Studies. The particles ir - the tense system. Vienna 1976. (Viennese magazine for the customer of the Orient, supplement 6.)
Finds from Egypt. Austrian excavations since 1961 (co-author Elfriede Reiser-Haslauer), Vienna 1979.
Egyptian art in Vienna. Vienna 1980.
Egyptian-Oriental Collection of the Art History Museum. Magazinpresse, Munich 1987.
Documents of the 18th dynasty. Indexes for issues 1–22. Co-author Monika Hasitzka. Berlin 1988.
Steles of the Middle Kingdom including the first and second intermediate periods. Part I. (co-author Irmgard Hein). Mainz 1989. (= Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Egyptian-Oriental Collection. Vol. 4.) ISBN 3-8053-1002-1 .
Steles of the Middle Kingdom including the first and second intermediate periods. Part II. (Co-author Irmgard Hein). Mainz 1993. (= Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Egyptian-Oriental Collection. Vol. 7.) ISBN 3-8053-1362-4 .
with the photographer Jürgen Liepe: The Art History Museum in Vienna. The Egyptian-Oriental Collection (= Ancient World. Special 1994; Zabern's illustrated books on archeology. Vol. 14). von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 978-3-8053-1600-2 . ISBN 3-8053-1600-3 .
Steles, inscription stones and reliefs from the 18th Dynasty. (Co-author Michaela Hüttner). Mainz 1999. (= Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Egyptian-Oriental Collection. Vol. 16.) ISBN 978-3-8053-2470-0 .
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. (Co-author Monika Randl). Utrecht 2002. (CD-ROM; Egyptian Treasures in Europe vol. 5.)
Hieroglyphic inscriptions from the late Egyptian period. Mainz 2012. (= Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Egyptian-Oriental Collection. Vol. 17.)
(Austro-) German Words in Serbian. (Co-author Danijela Stefanović). Beograd 2014.
with Danijela Stefanović Stelae of the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , London 2019. ISBN 978-1906137632
Is there not one among you who understands Egyptian? The Late Egyptian Language: Structure of its Grammar. Golden House Publications, London 2020. ISBN 9781906137670

more publishments

Over 150 essays on Egyptological and Coptic topics, Afro-Asian languages , Old Nubian etc. as well as over 60 reviews of relevant books; numerous contributions to catalogs, excavation publications and illustrated books.

literature

Roman Gundacker, Julia Budka, Gabriele Pieke (eds.): Florilegium Aegyptiacum. A scientific flower harvest by students and friends for Helmut Satzinger on his 75th birthday (= Göttinger Miszellen, supplement 14), Vienna 2013, ISSN 1867-9455 .

Monika RM Hasitzka, Johannes Diethart , Günther Dembski (eds.): Ancient Egypt and its neighbors. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Helmut Satzinger, with articles on Egyptology, Coptology, Nubiology and African Studies (= Kremser Wissenschaftliche Reihe. Vol. 3). Austrian Literature Forum , Krems 2003, ISBN 3-900860-21-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Satzinger, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Satzinger, Helmut Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Egyptologist and Coptologist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 21, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz , Upper Austria , Austria