Julia Budka

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Julia Budka (born March 22, 1977 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Egyptologist and archaeologist .

Life

Budka studied Egyptology and Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna and received her doctorate there in 2007 in Egyptology with a dissertation on the grave complexes of Asasif , supervised by Manfred Bietak and Helmut Satzinger . From 2004 to 2011 she was a research assistant at the Humboldt University in Berlin , then a postdoc university assistant at the University of Vienna with a temporary leave of absence to work at the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo . From March 2011 to July 2012 she held a temporary position at the Institute for Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Since April 2015 she has been Professor of Egyptian Archeology and Art History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

research

Her main research interests are settlement structures, necropolises , rock art and ceramics in Egypt and Upper Nubia . During excavations, she came across traces of Nehi in both Egypt and Nubia. Since then she has been studying the clash of the two cultures in particular. As an interdisciplinary research project that includes the reception of Egyptian hieroglyphs in late antiquity and early modern times, in 2005 she presented the first comprehensive scientific study of the Vienna obelisk, erected in 1777 in the Schönbrunn palace gardens . In addition to her specialist publications, she published articles on the history and culture of Egypt in the popular Berlin journal Kemet .

Awards

In addition to other grants, she received a DOC grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2003 , a START Prize from the FWF in June 2012 and an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council in July 2012 .

In 2014 she was accepted into the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , and in 2019 as a corresponding member.

Publications (selection)

  • The king at the front door: the role of the Egyptian ruler on decorated door frames of officials in the New Kingdom (= publications of the Institute for African Studies and Egyptology at the University of Vienna, contributions to Egyptology. Vol. 19). Afro Pub, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3850430944 .
  • The Schönbrunn Obelisk: symbolism and content of the hieroglyphic decoration (= publications by the Institute for African Studies and Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Vol. 103; Contributions to Egyptology. Vol. 21). Afro-Pub, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3850431037 .
  • Non-textual marking systems, writing and pseudo script from prehistory to present times (Ed. With Petra Andrássy and Frank Kammerzell) (= Lingua aegyptia, Studia monographica. Vol. 8). Seminar for Egyptology and Coptic Studies, Göttingen 2009.
  • Burial customs and cemetery structure in Asasif: an investigation of the late findings based on the results of the Austrian excavations 1969–1977 (= investigations by the Cairo branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Vol. 34; Memoranda of the Gesamtakademie / Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 59). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2010, ISBN 9783700166788 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The later period in Thebes-West. The Asasif. Burial customs and cemetery structure based on the results of the Austrian excavations in 1969–1977. (with abstract) in the Austrian Library Network
  2. ↑ a b derStandard: The old, cool Egyptians
  3. ↑ Kemet - The magazine for friends of Egypt
  4. ↑ START prices 2012
  5. ↑ derStandard: Highly endowed sponsorship award for a Viennese Egyptologist
  6. ^ ERC Starting Grant to Julia Budka Austrian Academy of Sciences
  7. ↑ publications.topoi.org ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Budka, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Egyptologist and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna