Max Burchardt (Egyptologist)

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Max Burchardt (born March 6, 1885 in Berlin , † September 7, 1914 near Meaux in France) was a German Egyptologist .

Life

The syllabic spelling in Egyptian . Inaugural dissertation, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Berlin 1908

Burchardt studied Egyptology and Semitic languages (here he mainly dealt with Assyriology ) at the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University and at the University of Leipzig . As early as 1904 he became an assistant in the Egyptian Department of the Royal Museums in Berlin , in 1905 he switched to the dictionary of the Egyptian language , a renowned project that was then based at the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Here he was involved as a collaborator in breaking down and evaluating the words and worked with Egyptologists such as Adolf Erman , Hermann Junker and Günther Roeder . He worked at the dictionary until 1910 and then returned to work at the museum.

In 1908 Burchardt received his doctorate with a dissertation on Syllabic writing in Egyptian . He expanded his doctoral thesis into a study of ancient Canaanite foreign words and proper names in Egyptian , which appeared in two volumes in 1909/1910. Together with Max Pieper , he worked on another study on the Egyptian king names ( Handbuch der Aegyptischen Könignames , 1912). He also wrote a number of essays, including 13 for the Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprach und Arbertumskunde . Burchardt also wrote articles for Pauly's Realencyclopedia of Classical Classical Studies . In the winter of 1912/1913 he undertook an expedition to Egypt at Eduard Meyer's suggestion and financed an expedition to Egypt through the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . The expedition that led Burchardt to Egypt and Nubia was supposed to photograph all representations of foreign peoples on Egyptian monuments, above all the inscribed Egyptian sources on the peoples of Southeast Europe and the Near East should be compiled. After his return he worked on a comprehensive study of Egyptian relations with other peoples, for which he evaluated his findings.

After the outbreak of World War I , Burchardt became an officer in the German Army. On September 7, 1914, he was seriously wounded in fighting near the French towns of Saint-Soupplets and Varreddes and died shortly afterwards.

Fonts

  • The syllabic spelling in Egyptian. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate, approved by the Philosophical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . Pries / Fritzsche, Leipzig 1908.
  • The ancient Canaanite foreign words and proper names in Egyptian . 2 parts. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1909/10. ( online )
  • with Max Pieper: Handbook of Egyptian royal names . Hinrichs, Leipzig 1912.

literature

  • Max Burchardt † . In: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 53, 1917, p. 149.
  • Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 3. Edition. London 1995, p. 74.

Web links

Wikisource: Max Burchardt (Egyptologist)  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ See for example the outline of the history of the dictionary company ( Memento from June 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .
  2. ↑ See Obituary, in: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 53, 1917, p. 149.
  3. ↑ See the review by James H. Breasted , in: American Journal of Semitic Languages ​​and Literatures 25, 1909, p. 319, who considered the work to be “very useful”.
  4. ↑ On this expedition Wolfgang Helck : Ägyptologie an Deutschen Universities , Wiesbaden 1969, p. 17 and the obituary, in: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 53, 1917, p. 149.
  5. ↑ See Maurice L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 3. Edition. London 1995, p. 74, and also the preliminary remark by Günther Roeder to his volume Egyptians and Hittites , to which Burchardt contributed an essay on the battle of Kadesch : Günther Roeder: Egyptians and Hittites , Hinrichs, Leipzig 1919, p. 4; Obituary . In: Georg Steindorff (Hrsg.): Journal for Egyptian language and antiquity . Fifty-third volume. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1917, p. 149 ( digitized version [accessed April 13, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Burchardt, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1914
Place of death near Meaux in France