Jadwiga Lipińska

Jadwiga Lipińska (born November 29, 1932 - October 4, 2009 ) was a Polish Egyptologist .

biography

After graduating from Warsaw University in 1958, Jadwiga Lipińska began her professional activity in the Gallery of Ancient Art of the National Museum in Warsaw , to which she remained connected throughout her professional life and in which she rose from the post of assistant to curator of the gallery. She held this position from 1991 until she retired in 2000, and it was associated with the title of professor of humanities . For many years she was also an active member of the Section for Egyptology (CIPEG) at the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

For more than forty years she was a member of the research program of the Polish Center for Mediterranean Archeology in Cairo , which is part of the University of Warsaw, and was one of the closest staff to the founder of the center Kazimierz Michałowski . She gained her first experience in practical archeology in 1960 while participating in the excavations at Tell Atrib . In 1961, during the first Polish activities at the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, she made a notable contribution to the discovery of the previously unknown mortuary temple of Thutmose III. The architecture of this temple was also the subject of her habilitation thesis . In addition to her work on the excavations in Egypt in Tell Atrib, Westtoben and Alexandria , she also took part in excavations in Faras in what is now Sudan from 1962 to 1963 and in Syria in 1965 . From 1964 to 1965 she was the director of the excavations in Deir el-Bahari.

As a university assistant to Michałowski, she helped shape his teaching program at Warsaw University and conveyed in particular to young Egyptologists the basic knowledge of ancient Egyptian art , topography and archeology. In addition, she was a tutor for numerous students at the University of Warsaw, but also at the Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw and at the University of Łódź .

In 1978 she took over the management of the new excavations at the mortuary temple of Thutmose III. in Deir el-Bahari, to which she devoted much of her studies and research in the following years. She retained this interest even after she ceded the head of the excavation mission in 1996.

Publications

In addition to her work in excavations and teaching, Jadwiga Lipińska was also the author of numerous standard works and more than 100 specialist articles on ancient Egyptian art, religion and architecture such as:

• "500 zagadek o starożytnym Egipcie" (500 riddles of ancient Egypt), Warsaw 1969,
• "Mitologia starożytnego Egiptu" (Ancient Egyptian Mythology) (co-author M. Marciniak), Warsaw 1977
• "Cywilizacja miedzi i kamienia" (The civilization of copper and stone) (co-author W. Kozinski), Warsaw 1977
• "Sztuka egipska" (Ancient Egyptian Art), Warsaw 1982,
• "W cieniu piramid" (In the shadow of the pyramids), Posen 2003,
• “Tajemnice papirusów” (Mysterium Papyrus ), Poznan 2005.

Web links

• "Jadwiga Lipińska (29 XI 1932 - 4 X 2009)"