Helmuth Jacobsohn

Helmuth Jacobsohn (born May 8, 1906 in Munich ; † September 21, 1994 ) was a German Egyptologist .

Life

Hermann Jacobsohn's son attended the Philippinum grammar school in Marburg from 1915 to 1925 . He then studied history, classical philology and Egyptology in Munich , Heidelberg, Berlin and finally Munich again, where he received his doctorate on June 23, 1939. phil. received his doctorate .

With the beginning of the Second World War Jacobson was drafted for military service, but was soon released again. Classified as a “ half-Jew ” by the National Socialists , he had difficulties in finding a job, but was then brought to Marburg as an employee by the art historian Richard Hamann in 1941. He supported Hamann with his publication Ägyptische Kunst (1944), which in turn stated in response to official inquiries that he could not do without Jacobsohn's editing of Egyptian texts. From 1943 to 1945 Jacobsohn worked as a research assistant in the photography department of the Marburg Art History Seminar. At the beginning of 1945 he was finally interned in a forced labor camp near Kassel , where he remained until the end of the war.

From 1945 to 1949 Jacobsohn received a scholarship from the Research Institute for Art History and then received a research assignment in the field of Egyptology. In 1951 he was awarded the Venia legendi for general religious history in Marburg , which was expanded to include Egyptology in 1955. From 1951 he taught as a lecturer at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich . He later received various teaching positions in Marburg and was administrator of a diet lecturer. In 1958 he was appointed to the Scientific Council and in 1964 to an extraordinary professor in Marburg. In 1971 he retired .

Fonts (selection)

The dogmatic position of the king in the theology of the ancient Egyptians . Glückstadt 1939, OCLC 468030134 .
The realization of the human being in the Egyptian religion . Hildesheim 1951, OCLC 643865870 .
with Marie-Louise von Franz and Siegmund Hurwitz: Timeless Documents of the Soul . Zurich 1952, OCLC 912090099 .
Herrmann Jungraithmayr as editor: Helmuth Jacobsohn: Gesammelte Schriften . Hildesheim 1992, ISBN 3-487-09564-5 .

Web links

Portrait
Literature by and about Helmuth Jacobsohn in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Schneider : Egyptologists in the Third Reich. Biographical notes based on the so-called "Steindorff list". In: Thomas Schneider, Peter Raulwing (Ed.): Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich. Ideology, scholarship and individual biographies. Brill, Leiden, 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24329-3 , p. 144.
^ Helmuth Jacobsohn. In: Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis: the academic teachers of the Philipps University in Marburg. Volume 2: From 1911 to 1971. Elwert, Marburg 1979.

personal data
SURNAME	Jacobsohn, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	September 21, 1994

[1] Thomas Schneider : Egyptologists in the Third Reich. Biographical notes based on the so-called "Steindorff list". In: Thomas Schneider, Peter Raulwing (Ed.): Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich. Ideology, scholarship and individual biographies. Brill, Leiden, 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24329-3 , p. 144.

[2] Helmuth Jacobsohn. In: Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis: the academic teachers of the Philipps University in Marburg. Volume 2: From 1911 to 1971. Elwert, Marburg 1979.