Holger Kockelmann

Holger Kockelmann (* 1973 in Prüm ) is a German Egyptologist .

Life

From 1994 to 2000 he studied Egyptology, papyrology and classical archeology at the University of Trier , where he obtained his Magister Artium in 2000, and from 2000 to 2001 at the University of Oxford , where he obtained his Master of Studies in June 2001 . From 2001 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the DFG project Edition of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead from the New Kingdom to the Roman Age at the University of Bonn . From 2003 to 2005 he was a research assistant on the project Edition of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead from the New Kingdom to the Roman Era of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences at the University of Bonn. After completing his doctorate in Egyptology in Bonn in 2005, he worked as a research assistant at the Egyptological seminar in Trier from 2005 to 2010 . After his habilitation at the University of Tübingen , he taught as a visiting professor at the Institute for Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg in 2014 . From 2015 to 2016 he represented the Chair of Egyptology at the University of Würzburg (winter semester 2015/2016 and summer semester 2016). As a visiting professor , he taught at Ain-Schams-Universität in 2017 . He is director of the project Edition of the Temple Inscriptions of Philae ( ÖAW ) and has been heading the site management project The Second Rescue of the Temple of Philae in Aswan ( Gerda Henkel Foundation ) since February 2017 .

His main research interests are the cultural history of ancient Egypt, the Egyptian religion, hieratic, hieroglyphic and demotic texts and the Ptolemaic and Roman temples of Egypt. In 2019 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Tübingen.

Fonts (selection)

• The lists of toponyms and cult names for the temple complex of Dendera based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Edfu and Dendera (= The inscriptions of the temple of Edfu. Booklet 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 3-447-04580-9 (also master's thesis, Trier 1999).
• Studies on the late Book of the Dead manuscripts on mummy bandages (= Studies on the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Volume 12). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05746-2 (also dissertation, Bonn 2005)
  • Volume 1. The mummy bandages and linen amulets of the Memphite priest Hor. 1. Text and photo boards.
  • Volume 1. The mummy bandages and linen amulets of the Memphite priest Hor. 2. Overview sketches and inscription boards.
  • Volume 2. Manual for the mummy bandages and linen amulets.
• Praising the Goddess. A Comparative and Annotated Re-Edition of Six Demotic Hymns and Praises Addressed to Isis (= Archive for Papyrus Research . Supplement 15). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-021224-2 (also master's thesis, Oxford 2001).
• as editor with Raimar Eberhard, Stefan Pfeiffer and Maren Schentuleit : "... in front of the papyrus everyone is equal!" Papyrological contributions in honor of Bärbel Kramer (= Archive for Papyrus Research. Supplement 27). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020645-6 .
• with Svenja A. Gülden, Burkhard Backes , Marcus Müller-Roth, Irmtraut Munro and Simone Stöhr: Bibliography on the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (= Studies on the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Volume 13). 2nd expanded edition, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05865-0 .
• with Alexa Rickert: From Meroe to India. Lists of foreign peoples and Nubian gift bearers in the Greco-Roman temples (= studies on the late Egyptian religion. Volume 12) (= soubassement studies. Volume 5). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10010-6 .
• with Erich Winter : The second east colonnade of the Temple of Isis in Philae (CO II and CO II K) (= Philae. Volume 3) (= investigations by the Cairo branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Volume 78). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2016, ISBN 3-7001-7796-8 .
  • Part 1. Text .
  • Part 2. Boards .
• The lord of lakes, swamps and rivers. Studies on the god Sobek and the Egyptian crocodile gods cults from the beginnings to Roman times (= Egyptological treatises. Volume 74). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 3-447-10810-X (also habilitation thesis, Tübingen 2014).
  • Part 1. Iconography and theological conception .
  • Part 2. Cult topography and ritual reality .
  • Part 3. Indices, bibliography and tables .
• as editor with Stefan Baumann: The Egyptian Temple as a ritual space. Files from the international conference, House of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 9.-12. June 2015 (= studies on the late Egyptian religion. Volume 17). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 3-447-10794-4 .

Web links

• University of Tübingen
• academia.edu