Kurt Sethe

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Kurt Sethe

Kurt Heinrich Sethe (born June 30, 1869 in Berlin ; † July 6, 1934 there ) was a German Egyptologist and an important representative of the Berlin School .

Life

Sethe is a great-grandson of Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Sethe . His father was a district judge. Sethe was married and had a son and a daughter.

After graduating from a humanistic grammar school (1887), he first studied law and then classical philology and Semitic languages, mainly Egyptology , at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1892 under Adolf Erman with a thesis on the aleph prostheticum , which is now called "j- Augment ". In 1895 he completed his habilitation . Between 1899 and 1903, the most significant work on the Egyptian verb for his grammatical work appeared. Sethe became associate professor of Egyptology in 1900 and full professor in 1907 at the University of Göttingen . He turned down offers to the University of Vienna (1906) and the University of Munich (1922). In 1923 he was appointed to Berlin as Erman's successor.

Sethe was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1919 and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences since 1932 . He was an external member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , a corresponding member of the Danish Academy of Sciences , the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire and an honorary member of the American Oriental Society. He was also a secret councilor . In 1931 he received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .

Together with Erman and Hermann Grapow , Sethe was instrumental in creating the dictionary of the Egyptian language . 1904–1905 he stayed for several months to record and collate texts for the dictionary project in Luxor and Cairo . 27 transcription books were created, which today form a particularly valuable focus of the text archive of the ancient Egyptian dictionary. From Setes collaboration on the dictionary of the Egyptian language, his authoritative edition of the ancient Egyptian pyramid texts as well as the volumes of documents of ancient Egyptian edited by him emerged . Sethe is considered one of the most important philologists in Egyptology. However, his findings extended beyond philology to the fields of history, geography, religion and mathematics.

Works

  • The Egyptian verb in Old Egyptian, New Egyptian and Coptic. 3 volumes, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1899–1902.
  • Old Kingdom documents. 4 parts, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1903-1933.
  • Documents of the 18th dynasty. 16 parts in 4 volumes, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1906–1909.
  • The Alta Egyptian Pyramid Texts. 4 volumes, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1908–1922.
  • Demotic documents on the Egyptian guarantee rights especially the Ptolemaic period. Teubner, Leipzig 1920.
  • Dramatic texts on ancient Egyptian mystery games. 2 parts, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1928.
  • Prehistory and the oldest religion of the Egyptians. German Oriental Society, Leipzig 1930.
  • The Hatshepsut problem examined again (= treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Born 1932, No. 4). Academy of Sciences / de Gruyter, Berlin 1932.
  • Translation and commentary on the ancient Egyptian pyramid texts. 6 volumes, Augustin, Glückstadt 1935–1962 (with Wolja Erichsen ).
  • Amun and the eight primordial gods of Hermopolis. An investigation into the origin and nature of the Egyptian king of the gods (= treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-historical class. Year 1929, No. 4). Academy of Sciences / de Gruyter, Berlin 1929.

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