Jürgen Zeidler

Jürgen Zeidler (* in Fürth ) is a German Egyptologist and Celtologist .

Life

He attended elementary school and the Hans-Sachs-Gymnasium in Nuremberg . After graduating from high school in mathematics and science and doing basic military service in the Bundeswehr in Bogen , he studied Egyptology, Latin and Greek philology , from 1986/87 ancient oriental studies and comparative religion at the universities of Würzburg and Tübingen , and attended events in classical archeology and comparative linguistics . He volunteered in the restoration workshops of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and in prehistoric and prehistoric excavations by the Natural History Society, Prehistory Department, Nuremberg. After the master's examination in 1988 with the written homework Das Stemma des Pfortenbuches , he was a research assistant with Erich Winter at the University of Trier from 1989 to 1993 . In 1992 he passed the oral doctoral examination at the University of Tübingen . The German Research Foundation funded him with a postdoctoral fellowship (1994–1998). From 1999 to 2002 he worked at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, especially the creation of find documentation and maps. After his habilitation in 2001 with the habilitation thesis The cosmological discourse in ancient Egypt and the habilitation colloquium with the lecture The Relationship of the Representation Modes 'Aspective' and Perspective in Egyptian Art , he worked from 2002 to 2003 in the SFB 600 Strangeness and Poverty at the University of Trier, sub-projects A1 (Greco-Roman Egypt) and A2 (Rome's foreign friends) with and was the interdisciplinary coordinator of recording and analysis schemes. Since 2003/2004 as a lecturer of Egyptology, Coptic , Greek and Latin linguistics, Indo-European , Latinum courses and at times in history, he manages projects funded by the Research Fund of the University of Trier. Since 2010 he has been an honorary member of the Société Belge d'Études Celtiques .

His research interests are Egyptology: Egyptian linguistics, especially the vocalization of Egyptian, literature, religion and art, especially the New Kingdom, relations with the ancient Orient, Afro-Asian linguistics, Indo-European studies. Indo-European cultural studies, reconstruction models, epigraphy and onomastics of ancient Indo-European languages ​​and Celtology: Celtic languages ​​and literatures of antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the history of writing and religion.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor with Knut Buroh, Peter Juergens, Dorothea Mutschler and Sabine Schloz: Hieroglyphics and Book of the Dead. The papyri of the Egyptian collection of the University of Tübingen. Exhibition in the university library (Bonatzbau) from December 4, 1985 to December 31, 1985. From the holdings of the collection of the Egyptological Institute of the University of Tübingen (= exhibition catalogs of the University of Tübingen. Volume 18). Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 1985, ISBN 3-921552-68-0 .
• as editor with Martina Minas : Aspects of late Egyptian culture. Festschrift for Erich Winter on his 65th birthday (= Aegyptiaca Treverensia. Volume 7). Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-1691-7 .
• Port book studies (= Göttingen Orient Research. Series 4 Egypt. Volume 36). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04035-1 (also dissertation, Tübingen 1992).
  • Part 1. Text criticism and text history of the port book .
  • Part 2. Critical edition of the port book based on the versions of the new empire .

Web links

• University of Trier