Kamal Sabri Kolta

Kamal Sabri Kolta (* 1930 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian Egyptologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Giza , Kolta studied classical philology from 1950 to 1954 at the University of Cairo and then worked as an English teacher at an Egyptian high school. From 1960 he studied Egyptology and Classical Philology in Tübingen , which he completed in 1967 with a doctorate . Since 1970 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Munich and since 1974 academic adviser , since 1984 academic senior adviser at the same institute. His research area is the history of medicine in Egypt in the Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic periods up to the 14th century. Work on this area has been published in various specialist journals. He is currently a freelancer and lecturer at the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine.

Fonts (selection)

• The equation of Egyptian and Greek gods in Herodotus . Tübingen 1968, OCLC 165430323 (also dissertation, Tübingen 1968).
• Christianity in the land of the pharaohs. History and present of the Copts in Egypt . Pfeiffer, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7904-0429-2 .
• From Akhenaten to Jesus. On the trail of Christianity in ancient Egypt. With an introduction by Manfred Görg (= Wewelbuch. Volume 146). Wewel, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-87904-146-6 .
• Medicine in ancient Egypt. Magic and ratio in conception of illness and therapeutic practice (= Sudhoff's archive. Supplement 42). Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07482-1 .
• as editor: Saber Gabra: Drugs in ancient Egypt. Drugs of mineral origin . Cairo 2010, ISBN 977-17-9666-6 (also dissertation, Cairo 1950).

literature

• Wolfgang G. Locher as editor: Oriental flower harvest. Symposium on the 75th birthday of Dr. Phil. Kamal Sabri Kolta. Florilegium Orientale . Zuckschwerdt, Munich 2006, OCLC 635246145 .

Web links

• University of Munich