Joachim Spiegel

Joachim Spiegel (born June 16, 1911 in Berlin , † November 1, 1989 in Nürtingen ) was a German Egyptologist .

Life

Joachim Spiegel studied Egyptology from 1929 at the University of Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1935 under Hermann Grapow . 1935-36 was an assistant at the University of Leipzig with Walther Wolf , 1937, there his habilitation. For 1936/37 he received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . He then stayed in Cairo until 1940 , but as a non-member of the NSDAP could not get a permanent position at the local department of the German Archaeological Institute ; however, he was not very popular in Cairo.

Due to his knowledge of Arabic, Spiegel worked for the German propaganda broadcaster of the Foreign Office for Arabia from 1941 to 1945, initially based in occupied Athens, then in occupied Belgrade, and most recently in Berlin.

In 1945 he became a private lecturer at the University of Göttingen , from 1950 to 1952 he was acting head of the Egyptological Institute there, and in 1957 he was appointed as an adjunct professor of Egyptology.

literature

• Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 . Vol. 4. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 , p. 309f.
• Thomas Schneider : Egyptologists in the Third Reich. Biographical notes based on the so-called "Steindorff list". In: Thomas Schneider, Peter Raulwing (Ed.): Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich. Ideology, scholarship and individual biographies. Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24329-3 , pp. 226-227.
• Susanne Voss: The history of the Cairo department of the DAI in the field of tension of German political interests , Volume 2: 1929-1966 (= People - Cultures - Traditions Vol. 8, 2). Publishing house Marie Leihdorf, Rahden / Westf. 2017, ISBN 978-3-86757-396-2 , pp. 133-135.