Karl-Theodor Zauzich

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Karl-Theodor Zauzich (born June 8, 1939 in Plauen ) is a German Egyptologist and demotist .

Life

From 1945 to 1953 he attended elementary school in Leipzig and Grimma and from 1953 to 1957 the secondary school in Grimma and Leipzig. After graduating from the Thomasschule Leipzig in 1957, he studied Egyptology at the University of Leipzig from 1957 to 1958 . In November 1958 he fled to the Federal Republic. After taking the supplementary examination for the East German Abitur in Koblenz in April 1959, he studied Egyptology and classical philology at the University of Mainz from 1959 to 1964 . From 1960 to 2000 she worked at the Demotic Name Book (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz) in Mainz, Würzburg and Berlin. From 1965 to 2014 he worked on the “Cataloging of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany”, from 1967–1973 as a research assistant in Würzburg and Berlin, then on a voluntary basis, 1994–2014 member of the management committee. After receiving his doctorate in 1966 as Dr. phil. In Mainz he was a research assistant at the Egyptian Museum Berlin from 1973 to 1980 . After completing his habilitation in July 1980 at the Free University of Berlin , he became Professor C3 at the University of Mainz in 1980 , head of the seminar for Egyptology. In 1981 he became Professor C4 at the University of Würzburg and head of the Institute for Egyptology.

His main research interests are demotic writing and language; demotic texts from Elephantine and Soknopaiu Nesos; Origin of the alphabet; Traces of the Egyptian religion in the Hebrew Bible.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Egyptian writing tradition in the structure, language and writing of the demotic purchase contracts from the Ptolemaic period (= Egyptological treatises. Volume 18). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1968, OCLC 871457806 (also dissertation, Mainz 1966).
  • as editor: Egyptian manuscripts. Part 2 (= directory of oriental manuscripts in Germany. Volume 19.2). Steiner, Stuttgart 1971, OCLC 310664795 .
  • Some Carian inscriptions from Egypt and Asia Minor and their interpretation after deciphering the Carian script . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1972, ISBN 3-447-01454-7 .
  • as editor: Papyri from the island Elephantine (= demotic papyri from the State Museums in Berlin. Volume 1). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978, OCLC 74466487 .
  • as editor with Heinz-Josef Thissen : Grammata demotika. Festschrift for Erich Lüddeckens on June 15, 1983 . G. Zauzich, Würzburg 1984, ISBN 3-924151-01-6 .
  • as editor: Papyri from the island Elephantine (= demotic papyri from the State Museums in Berlin. Volume 3). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002406-2 .
  • as editor with Richard Jasnow : The ancient Egypt book of Thoth. A demotic discourse on knowledge and pendant of the classical hermetica . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05082-9 .
  • Hieroglyphs with no secret. An introduction to the ancient Egyptian script for museum visitors and tourists to Egypt (= cultural history of the ancient world ). 12th edition, von Zabern, Darmstadt / Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-8053-4267-4 .
    • Tjalling Bos (translator): Hiërogliefen lezen. A handleiding voor museumbezoekers en Egypte-Reizigers . 7th edition, Piramide, Amsterdam et al. 2001, ISBN 9024513081 .
  • with Richard Jasnow: Conversations in the house of life. A new translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10116-5 .
  • Hieroglyphics with mystery. New knowledge about the origin of our alphabet . von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 3-8053-4756-1 .
  • Seventeen Egyptian gods - one Jewish god. The Egyptian roots of monotheism . Gisela Zauzich Verlag, Sommerhausen 2017, ISBN 3-924151-09-1 .

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SURNAME Zauzich, Karl-Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist and demotist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen