Hermann Kees

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Hermann Kees (born December 21, 1886 in Leipzig , † February 7, 1964 in Göttingen ) was a German Egyptologist . He taught as a professor at the Universities of Göttingen and Ain-Schams in Cairo.

Life

Hermann (Alexander Jakob) Kees was the son of the wealthy manor owner Paul Kees. After completing his school days at the Thomas School in Leipzig in 1905, Kees began to study Egyptology , archeology and history at the universities in Göttingen and Munich . Kees finished his studies in 1911 with his dissertation The Sacrificial Dance of the Egyptian King . In 1912 he went on his first study trip to Egypt .

After the First World War , which he participated in in full, Kees was able to complete his habilitation at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1920 . Immediately afterwards he became a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig . In 1924, Kees was entrusted with the management of the chair for Egyptology at the University of Göttingen. He mainly taught ancient Egyptian religious history and its gods. His books The belief in gods in ancient Egypt and belief in the dead and the afterlife of the ancient Egyptians are considered standard works.

Before 1933, Kees was chairman of the DNVP in Göttingen, of which he had been a member since 1919. In 1933 he joined the SA and later became a member of the NSDAP. After 1933 Hermann Kees was involved in the science policy of National Socialism. Two famous graduates of the Göttingen seminar, Georg Steindorff and Hans Jacob Polotsky , were forced to emigrate.

After the end of the war, Kees was removed from his position as part of the denazification process and, classified in a less polluted category, was put on hold as a civil servant. He was represented as acting head of the seminar by Eberhard Otto from 1946 to 1950 and by Joachim Spiegel from 1950 to 1952 . Through the mediation of his former student Ahmed Badawi (1905–1980), Kees had the opportunity to live seasonally in Cairo as a consultant for study matters at the newly founded Ibrahim Pascha University (renamed Ain Shams University in 1954 ) . After he officially retired on April 1, 1952, Siegfried Schott succeeded him in Göttingen and Kees was a visiting professor at Ain-Schams-Universität until 1956.

At the age of 77, Hermann Kees died on February 7, 1964 in Göttingen and was buried there.

From 1927 to 1945 he was a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • The sacrificial dance of the Egyptian king. Dissertation, Munich 1911.
  • Ancient egypt. A little knowledge of the country. Böhlau, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-205-00512-0 .
  • The belief in gods in ancient Egypt. 5th unchanged edition. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983 (7th unchanged edition: ISBN 3-05-000471-1 ).
  • Belief in the dead and conceptions of the afterlife of the ancient Egyptians. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Kees  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 114.
  2. ↑ https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz40309.html
  3. ↑ Thomas Schneider, Egyptologists in the Third Reich, p. 169
  4. ↑ Thomas Schneider, Egyptologists in the Third Reich, p. 170
  5. ↑ Heike Behlmer, Jürgen Horn, Gerald Moers: Data on the history of Egyptology in Göttingen ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ From Göttingen to Heliopolis
  7. ↑ http://www.markkleeberg.de/export/sites/markkleeberg/de/stadt_verwaltung/dokumente/herrmann_kees.pdf
  8. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 129.
personal data
SURNAME Kees, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1964
Place of death Goettingen