Natalja Dawidowna Flittner

Natalya Dawidowna Flittner ( Russian Наталья Давидовна Флиттнер ; born September 2 ^{. Jul} / 14. September  1879 ^{. Greg} in St. Petersburg ; † 16th July 1957 in Leningrad ) was a Russian - Soviet Egyptologist , art historian and university lecturer .

Life

Flittner's great-grandfathers on his father's side studied philosophy and theology in Leipzig . The great-grandfather Franz August Flittner came to Russia from Saxony and became pastor of a German congregation in the Saratov governorate . Flittner's grandfather Bogdan Franzewitsch Flittner (1806–1868) came with his family to St. Petersburg and served as pastor of the 2nd Cadet Corps and preacher at the Katharinenkirche on Vasilyevsky Island , while his brother David Franzewitsch Flittner (1796–1869) pastor of the 1st Cadet Corps and St. Michael's Church and 1817–1841 chairman of the St. Petersburg Evangelical Lutheran Consistory . Flittner's father Johann Karl David Bogdanowitsch Flittner (1841–1901) was a doctor . Her mother Natalija Andrejewna nee Egermann was the daughter of a railway worker from Mitau .

Flittner grew up in the peaceful Kolomna district of St. Petersburg . As the oldest, she took part in the upbringing of her siblings Sophia, Julia, Wilhelmina and Bruno. One of her childhood memories related to the wild rocking on the Egyptian chain bridge with sphinx figures made of cast iron over the Fontanka , which collapsed in 1905 when Flittner was sick with typhus .

Flittner studied from 1904 in the higher courses for women and heard lectures at the University of St. Petersburg with the art historian Adrian Wiktorowitsch Prachow and the ancient historian Michael Rostovtzeff . She studied the ancient Egyptian language with Boris Alexandrowitsch Turajew together with Wassili Wassiljewitsch Struwe and Wladimir Kasimirowitsch Schileiko . In addition, she taught history at the girls' forest high school from 1904 to 1913 . 1909 and then again in 1912 it was to Berlin sent to attend the University of Berlin to study and among the founders of Egyptology Eduard Meyer , Heinrich Schäfer , Georg Möller and Adolf Erman to work (until the beginning of the First World War ).

After the October Revolution , Flittner taught from 1919 to 1956 at the Repin Institute for Painting , Sculpture and Architecture, which emerged from the Imperial Academy of Arts , and from 1921 to 1930 as a lecturer at the University of Petrograd and Leningrad and from 1930 to 1935 at the Leningrad Institute for Philosophy , linguistics and history . She was one of the first Russian art scholars. It was Magistra and was established in 1940 without defending a dissertation for Doctor of Historical Sciences PhD. Miliza Edwinowna Matje , Igor Michailowitsch Djakonow and Boris Borissowitsch Piotrowski were among her students . In 1949 she became a professor at the Department of Foreign Art at the Repin Institute.

In addition to her teaching activities, Flittner worked from 1919 to 1950 in the Leningrad Hermitage as a research assistant in the Eastern Department. Together with others, she designed the first exhibition on Ancient Egypt in the halls of the Hermitage and wrote the first guide to the ancient Egyptian halls (1929).

According to her publications, Flittner's main area of ​​work was the art and culture of ancient Egypt. She dealt with hieroglyphic writing and with the glass and ceramics workshops in Amarna . In addition, she also examined the Syro-Hittite monuments in the Hermitage and studied the art and culture of Mesopotamia and the neighboring states.

Web links

• Literature by and about Natalja Dawidowna Flittner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Catalog of the Russian National Library : Флиттнер, Наталья Давидовна

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} University of St. Petersburg: Флиттнер Наталья Давидовна (accessed April 30, 2020).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Воробьева Наталия Николаевна: Наталия Давидовна флиттнер - ученый и педагог . In: Труды Исторического факультета Санкт-Петербургского университета . 2015 ( [1] [accessed April 30, 2020]).