Louise Gestermann

Louise Gestermann (* 1957 in Hameln ) is a German Egyptologist .

Louise Gestermann studied Egyptology, Sociology , Classical Archeology and Near Eastern Archeology in Mainz , Tübingen and Göttingen , where she received her MA in 1981. From 1982 to 1984 she was a research associate on Wolfgang Schenkel's coffin texts project in Göttingen. In 1985 she received her doctorate from the University of Tübingen and was from 1986 to 1994 research assistant at the Tübingen excavation in Kōm al-ahmar near Šārūna in Middle Egypt . From 1991 to 2002 she was a research assistant and senior assistant at the Egyptological seminar at the University of Bonn , where she completed her habilitation in 1997. Since 2004 she has been an adjunct professor at the University of Bonn.

From 2002 to 2006 she worked on the project to process Adolf Erman's estate . Since 2006 she has been involved in the work in the grave of Monthemhet ( TT34 ) in Theben-West and has been working on a research project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation since 2012 “The textual and visual design of the path to the coffin chamber. To the decoration program in the late tomb of Monthemhet (TT 34) in Thebes-West ”.

Publications (selection)

• Continuity and change in politics and administration of the early Middle Kingdom in Egypt (= Göttingen Orient Research. Series 4: Egypt. Vol. 18). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02728-2 (At the same time: Tübingen, University, dissertation, 1986).
• The transmission of selected texts from ancient Egyptian literature on the dead ("coffin texts") in late-time tombs (= Egyptological treatises. Vol. 68). 2 volumes. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05193-0 (At the same time: Bonn, University, habilitation paper, 1997).

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Tübingen
• Writings by Louise Gestermann in Propylaeum-DOK