Karl Heinrich Dittmann

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Karl Heinrich Dittmann (born August 18, 1907 in Hamburg , † 1945 missing) was a German prehistorian and Egyptologist .

After graduating from high school in Hamburg, he first studied history and antiquity at the University of Hamburg from 1926 and at the same time worked for Gustav Schwantes as a volunteer assistant at the Museum of Ethnology and Prehistory . From 1927 he studied at the University of Heidelberg . In addition to prehistory and early history, he studied Egyptology and classical archeology. In July 1931 he received his doctorate under Ernst Wahle with the thesis "Investigations into the history of the older Bronze Age in Northwest Germany". In 1932/33 he received the Wülfing scholarship with which he came to Egypt. Here he was then active in numerous excavations.

Publications

• The origin of the ancient Egyptian chariot in Florence. In: Germania . Vol. 18, No. 4, 1934, pp. 249-252 .
• The significance of Egyptian antiquity for the history of European culture. In: Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Egypt 4, 1936, ZDB -ID 347222-X , pp. 1-15.
• Report on archaeological activities in Egypt 1934–1936. In: Communications from the German Institute for Egyptian Antiquity in Cairo. 6, 1936, ZDB -ID 206062-0 , p. 158 ff.
• Investigations into the history of the older Bronze Age in northwest Germany. Hamburg 1938, (Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 29 September 1938).
• A coat statue from the 4th dynasty. In: Communications from the German Institute for Egyptian Antiquity in Cairo. 8, 1939, pp. 165-170.
• An iron spangenhelm in Cairo. In: Germania. Vol. 24, No. 1, 1940, pp. 54-58 .
• An ancient Egyptian sailing wagon. In: Researches and Advances. News sheet for German science and technology. 17, 1941, ISSN  0367-2794 pp. 168-169.
• The Medînet Mâdi sailing wagon. In: Communications from the German Institute for Egyptian Antiquity in Cairo. 10, 1941, pp. 60-78.
• To the title [Aa27 M3 Aa1 X1] . In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity. 77, 1942, p. 7 ff.
• Goethe and the 'Egyptian things'. In: Communications from the German Institute for Egyptian Antiquity in Cairo. 12, 1943, pp. 96-106.
• The history of the importance of the Egyptian folding chair. In: Università degli studi di Pisa (ed.): Studi in memoria di Ippolito Rosellini nel primo centenario della morte. Volume 2. Lischi, Pisa 1955, pp. 43-56.