Karola Zibelius-Chen

Karola Zibelius-Chen (born January 5, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German Egyptologist and Sudan archaeologist .

Life

Zibelius-Chen studied in Berlin , Paris and Tübingen and received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute in 1971/72 . She received her doctorate in 1969 at the University of Tübingen, where she also completed her habilitation and worked at the collaborative research center “ Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East ”. She led the campaign to include the Naqa Lion Temple in Sudan in 1979.

From 1994 until his retirement in 2005, Zibelius-Chen was the custodian of the Egyptian Collection at the University of Tübingen and designed the Egyptian permanent exhibition of the Egyptological Institute as part of the Museum Schloss Hohentübingen and special exhibitions. She was a co-initiator and associate professor in the sub-project A3 “Language and cultural contacts in the greater Egypt / Sudan / Ethiopia” area with the question “African-origin loanwords in Egyptian texts” at the Collaborative Research Center ACACIA of the University of Cologne from 1998 to 2004 she temporarily went to the Egyptological Institute of the University of Tübingen. Her main areas of work are Egyptian and cultural history as well as Nubia and Sudan research.

Fonts (selection)

• African place and people names in hieroglyphic and hieratic texts . TAVO B 1, 1972 (= dissertation)
• Egyptian settlements based on texts from the Old Kingdom . TAVO B 19, 1978, ISBN 3-88226-012-2
• with Ingrid Gamer-Wallert : The lion temple of Naq'a in the Butan (Sudan) I: Research history and topography . TAVO B 48/1, 1983
• The lion temple of Naq'a in Butana (Sudan) IV: The inscriptions . TAVO B 48/4, 1983, ISBN 3-88226-161-7
• The Egyptian expansion into Nubia. An explanation of the basic factors . TAVO B 78, 1988, ISBN 3-88226-421-7
• "Egypt" in Brockhaus Library - World History Vol. 1 "Early High Cultures" . 1997
• "Nubian" language material in hieroglyphic and hieratic texts . Meroitica 25, 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06465-1

Editor

• Museum Schloss Hohentübingen: Ancient Egypt . Tübingen, 2002
• with Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert : "Of plenty of Egyptian understanding". Festschrift for Waltraud Guglielmi on his 65th birthday . Philippica. Marburg Classical Papers 11, 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05309-9
• with Steffen Wenig : The cultures of Nubia - an African legacy . Röll, Dettelbach 2013, ISBN 978-3897543973 .

Web links

• Zibelius-Chen at the University of Tübingen