Militsa Edwinovna Matje

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Miliza Edwinowna Mathieu ( Russian Милица Эдвиновна Матье * July 12 . Jul / 24. July  1899 greg. In St. Petersburg , † 8. April 1966 in Leningrad ) was a Russian - Soviet Egyptologist .

Life

Matje, the daughter of a naturalized Englishman , attended the girls' grammar school in Kronstadt and began studying in Petrograd in 1918 in the higher courses for women that belonged to the University of Petrograd after the October Revolution . At the University of Petrograd she heard lectures by Boris Alexandrowitsch Turajew , Wassili Wassiljewitsch Struwe and Natalja Dawidowna Flittner . In 1923 she finished her studies.

Matje worked in the Leningrad Hermitage from 1921 to 1965 . She taught at the University of Leningrad and at the Faculty of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Repin Institute for Painting , Sculpture and Architecture, which emerged from the Imperial Academy of Arts . From 1933 she headed the Department of Old East of the Hermitage as successor to Wassili Wassiljewitsch Struwes. In 1945 she successfully defended her dissertation on art in Thebes from the 21st to the 15th century BC. Chr. , For promotion to Doctor of Historical Sciences . In 1947 she was appointed professor of the Chair of the History of the Ancient East at Leningrad University.

Matje researched the religion and art of ancient Egypt . She participated in the publication of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic monuments in the collection of the Hermitage. In her investigations into ancient Egyptian mythology , she largely followed Frazer's theory of the dying and resurrecting God. In 1961 she published her fundamental work on the art of ancient Egypt. She formulated a hypothesis on how to read the pyramid texts correctly . In her historical tale, A Day of an Egyptian Boy , she mentioned in the preface that she had never been to Egypt . Some of her books have been translated into many languages.

Matje was married to the Africanist Dmitri Alexejewitsch Olderogge (1903-1987) and her second marriage to the Egyptologist Isidor Michailowitsch Lurje (1903-1958).

Honors

  • Merited Artist of the RSFSR (1964)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c А.Н. Баранов: Милица Эдвиновна Матье (accessed April 29, 2020).
  2. ↑ a b c Мемория. Милица Матье (accessed April 29, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b c University of St. Petersburg: Матье Милица Эдвидовна (accessed April 29, 2020).
  4. ↑ Matje ME: День египетского мальчика: Историческая повесть . Детгиз, Moscow 1954.
  5. ↑ Djakonow IM : Книга воспоминаний. Глава одиннадцатая (1937–1939) (accessed April 29, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Matje, Militsa Edwinovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Матье, Милица Эдвиновна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1966
Place of death Leningrad