Michael E. Habicht

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Michael E. Habicht (* 1974 ) is a Swiss Egyptologist . He works as a scientist at the Institute for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich and is also a lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide , Australia .

Life

After obtaining his Matura in Zurich , Habicht studied classical archeology , Egyptology and prehistory and early history at the universities in Zurich and Basel and graduated in 2006 with a Magister Artium . In 2018 he completed his PhD in bioarchaeology in Australia and has been a Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University since 2019. He specialized in the New Kingdom , the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the "underworld books" such as the Duat , as well as the reigns of the ancient Egyptian kings Akhenaten and Tutankhamun at that time. He is currently a member of Frank Rühli's team in the Paleopathology and Mummy Studies Group project and has published the results of the investigations together with other Egyptologists. His main research area in this study is the analysis of organic material in ancient Egyptian canopic jars in order to infer the state of health of royal family members and that of the ancient Egyptian population. Various studies deal with the identification or biology of the ancient Egyptians (body size, diseases).

In addition to specialist articles in Antike Welt , PLoS One , Lancet and the Göttingen Miscellen , Michael E. Habicht has also presented some popular scientific works.

Publications

Monographs

  • Nefertiti and Akhenaten. The secret of the Amarna mummies. Koehler + Amelang, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-7338-0381-0 .
  • Semenchkare - phantom king (in) of Achet-Aton. Contribution to research into the mysterious succession of Akhenaten. 4th edition. epubli, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7485-8643-2 .
  • Tutankhamun 100 years of discovery of his tomb. 2nd Edition. epubli, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-7529-3886-9 .
  • Monumental Egypt. The story of the Old Kingdom. 2nd Edition. epubli, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-7467-5449-9 .
  • Literary Egypt. The history of the Middle Kingdom. epubli, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-7529-4258-3 .
  • Imperial Egypt. The story of the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period. 3. Edition. epubli, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-7502-7103-6 .
  • Tutankhamun 100 years of discovery of his tomb. epubli, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7485-3995-7 .
  • Popess Johanna. A covered up pontificate of a woman or a fictional legend? epubli, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7467-5736-0 .

Scientific publications

  • ME Habicht, M. Henneberg, LM Öhrström, K. Staub, FJ Rühli: Body height of mummified pharaohs supports historical suggestions of sibling marriages. In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Volume 157, No. 3, 2015, pp. 519-525 ( doi: 10.1002 / ajpa.22728 ).
  • R. Bianucci, ME Habicht, S. Buckley, J. Fletcher , R. Seiler, LM Öhrström et al: Shedding New Light on the 18th Dynasty Mummies of the Royal Architect Kha and His Spouse Merit. In: PLoS ONE. Volume 10, No. 7, 2015, Article e0131916, ( doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0131916 ).
  • ME Habicht, AS Bouwman, FJ Rühli: Identifications of ancient Egyptian royal mummies from the 18th Dynasty reconsidered. In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Volume 159, No. S61, 2016, pp. 216-231 ( doi: 10.1002 / ajpa.22909 ).
  • ME Habicht and FM Galassi, W. Wettengel: The Ramesside Mummies. Identification and Medical Assessment. Under the seal of the necropolis. Volume 4, 2019. (michaelhabicht.info)
  • ME Habicht, R. Bianucci, SA Buckley, J. Fletcher, AS Bouwman, LM Öhrström et al .: Queen Nefertari, the Royal Spouse of Pharaoh Ramses II: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Mummified Remains Found in Her Tomb (QV66). In: PLoS ONE. Volume 11, No. 11, 2016, Article e0166571 ( doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0166571 ).
  • R. Gautschy, ME Habicht, FM Galassi, D. Rutica, FJ Ruhli, R. Hannig : A new astronomical based chronological model for the Egyptian Old Kingdom. In: Journal of Egyptian History. Volume 10, No. 2, 2007, pp. 69-108.
  • M. Henneberg, F. Rühli, FM Galassi, W. de Herder, ME Habicht: Oldest case of gigantism? Assessment of the alleged remains of Sa-Nakht, king of ancient Egypt. In: The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology. No. 5, 2017, pp. 580-581 (online)
  • FM Galassi, ME Habicht, A. Bouwman, F. Rühli: Interdisciplinary Analysis of Ancient Mummified Viscera. 2017, CIPEG ( doi: 10.11588 / cipeg.2017.1.44165 ).
  • ME Habicht, PE Eppenberger, FM Galassi, FJ Rühli, M. Henneberg: Queen Meresankh III: The oldest case of bilateral silent sinus syndrome (c. 2620 / 10-2570 BC)? In: ANTHROPOLOGY. Volume 56, No. 2, 2018, pp. 103-113 (online)
  • Michael E. Habicht, Rita Gautschy, Daniel Rutica, Francesco M. Galassi, Renate Siegmann, Rainer Hannig: Astronomical data and their use to establish the chronology of the Old Kingdom. In: Sokar. Volume 37, 2019, pp. 70-73.

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personal data
SURNAME Habicht, Michael E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974