Joachim Friedrich Quack

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Joachim Friedrich Quack (born June 10, 1966 in Husum , Schleswig-Holstein ) is a German Egyptologist and demotist .

education

He studied Egyptology , Semitic Studies and Biblical Archeology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and, after a stay abroad at the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France in Paris, obtained his master's degree in 1990 : "very good with distinction".

In the years 1991–1993 he worked on his dissertation on The Teachings of Ani and received a doctoral grant from the German National Academic Foundation combined with a stay in Copenhagen . Joachim Friedrich Quack began a second degree in ancient oriental studies and prehistory and early history in 1991 .

In 1991 he took part in the excavation of the Biblical Archaeological Institute in Tübingen in Ḫirbet ez-Zeraqōn in northern Jordan . In 1994 he received a teaching position for "Ancient Egyptian Magic" at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and in 1995 he became a member of the International Committee for Publishing the Carlsberg Papyri in Copenhagen. During this time he held a one-semester course “Introduction to Demotic”. In 1996 he received a research grant from the German Research Foundation for the reconstruction of the book from the temple.

From 1997 worked as a research assistant at the Egyptological Seminar of the Free University of Berlin , he won the 2002 lectureship "Introduction to Middle Egyptian language and subtitle" and habilitated himself on 12 February 2003 with his habilitation thesis "Contributions to the Egyptian deans and its reception in the Greco-Roman world ”(FU Berlin 2002). JF Quack has been Professor of Egyptology in Heidelberg since 2005 .

Awards and grants

Publications

Below is a selection of the publications.

Monographs and Series

  • with Friedhelm Hoffmann : anthology of demotic literature. Lit Verlag, Münster 2007.
  • The demotic and Graeco-Egyptian literature (= introduction to the ancient Egyptian literary history 3 ). Lit, Münster 2005.
  • Studies on teaching for merikare. In: Göttinger Orientforschungen, IV. Series Egypt. (GOF IV) Vol. 23, Wiesbaden 1992.

Articles and contributions

  • Les mages égyptianisés? Remarks on some surprising points in supposedly magusean writings. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . 65, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2006, pp. 267-282.
  • The Horus steles and their pictorial program. In: V. Vaelske et al .: Egypt. A temple of animals. Achet, Berlin 2006, pp. 107-109.
  • The grave at the Temple Dome. New interpretations of a late-time grave type. In: K. Zibelius-Chen, H.-W. Fischer-Elfert (ed.): Of plenty of Egyptian understanding. Festschrift for Waltraud Guglielmi on his 65th birthday. (= Philippika. Vol. 11). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 113-132.
  • For reading and interpreting the dramatic Ramesseum papyrus. In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity. (ZÄS), Vol. 133. Akademie, Berlin 2006, pp. 72-89.
  • Fragments of the mouth opening ritual from Tebtynis. In: K. Ryholt (Ed.): The Carlsberg Papyri 7. Hieratic Texts from the Collection. Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2006, pp. 69–150.
  • Papyrus Carlsberg 656. A manuscript of the Socar ritual. In: K. Ryholt (Ed.): The Carlsberg Papyri 7. Hieratic Texts from the Collection. Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2006 pp. 65–68.
  • Papyrus Carlsberg 475. A new text witness for the nine-member Bes. In: K. Ryholt (Ed.): The Carlsberg Papyri 7. Hieratic Texts from the Collection. Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2006, pp. 53–64.
  • The hieratic and hieroglyphic papyri from Tebtynis. An overview. In: K. Ryholt (Ed.): The Carlsberg Papyri 7. Hieratic Texts from the Collection. Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2006, pp. 1–7.
  • Sick people who are taboo and excluded according to the 'Book of the Temple'. In: H.-W. Fischer-Elfert (Ed.): Ebers Papyrus and Egyptian Medicine (= Philippika. Vol. 7). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 63-80.
  • An underworld book of solar-Osirian unity? (= The world of the Orient. Vol. 35). Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, Göttingen 2006, pp. 22–47.
  • Shrines of Egyptian deities and their furnishings in Italy. In: Simone Friede (Ed.): Egypt Greece Rome. Defense and touch. Liebieghaus & Wasmuth, Frankfurt / Tübingen / Berlin 2005, pp. 398–404.
  • The Egyptians' image of man. Function and meaning of Egyptian sculptures in comparison to the Greek ones In: Simone Friede (Ed.): Egypt Greece Rome. Defense and touch. Liebieghaus & Wasmuth, Frankfurt / Tübingen / Berlin 2005, pp. 50–54.
  • To a new edition of the Month Gate. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung Vol. 100, Akademie, Berlin 2005, pp. 125–137.
  • A pretext and its realizations. Aspects of the Egyptian mouth opening ritual. In: H. Roeder, H. and B. Dücker (eds.): Text and Ritual. Essays and cultural studies from Sesostris to the Dadaists. Synchron, Heidelberg 2005, pp. 165-185.
  • Greek and other demons in the demotic magical texts. In: Thomas Schneider (Ed.): The Egyptian and the languages ​​of the Middle East, North Africa and the Aegean. Files from the Basel Colloquium on Egyptian-Non-Semitic Language Contact Basel 9.-11. July 2003 (= Old Orient and Old Testament. Vol. 310). 2004, pp. 427-507.
  • Perspectives on Theology in Ancient Egypt: Answer to Jan Assmann. In: M. Oeming et al .: Theology in Israel and the neighboring cultures (= Old Testament and Modernism. Vol. 9). Münster 2004, pp. 63–74.
  • Fragments of Memphite religion and astronomy in semidemotic script. In: F. Hoffmann, HJ Thissen (ed.): Res severa verum gaudium. Festschrift for Karl-Theodor Zauzich on his 65th birthday on June 8, 2004 (= Studia Demotica. Vol. 6). Leuven / Paris / Dudley MA 2004, pp. 467-496, T. 37-39.
  • Organizer le culte idéal. In: Le Manuel du temple egyptien. In: Bulletin de la Société Française d'Égyptologie. Vol. 160, 2004, pp. 9-25.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excavations in Ḫirbet ez-Zeraqōn (1984–1994) ( Memento from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Publication in preparation.
  3. ↑ http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/mektiven/2010/m20101202_leibniz_preis.html
personal data
SURNAME Quack, Joachim Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum , Schleswig-Holstein