Peter Jánosi

Peter Jánosi (* 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Egyptologist .

From 1981 to 1988 Jánosi studied history, Egyptology and archeology at the University of Vienna . In 1988 Jánosi received his doctorate in philosophy. In the same year he was employed at the University of Vienna in the subject of Egyptology, where he completed his habilitation in 2001. Jánosi has worked as an archaeologist in Egypt since 1983, including working on the excavations at Tell el-Dab'a . Jánosi is particularly concerned with the archeology, history and architectural history of ancient Egypt, with a research focus on the so-called pyramid era .

Fonts

• The pyramids of the queens (= investigations by the Cairo branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Vol. 13; Memoranda of the entire academy. Vol. 13). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7001-2207-1 .
• Austria in front of the pyramids. Hermann Junkers' excavations on behalf of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna near the great pyramid in Giza (= session reports of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Vol. 648; Publications of the Egyptian Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. No. 3 ). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2664-6 .
• Giza in the 4th dynasty. Volume 1: The mastabas of the core cemeteries and the rock graves (= investigations by the Cairo branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Vol. 24; Memoranda of the entire Academy . Vol. 30). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3244-1 .
• The pyramids. Myth and Archeology (= Beck'sche Reihe. Bd. 2331, CH Beck Wissen). Beck , Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-50831-6 (also Italian: Le piramidi. Mulino, Bologna 2006, ISBN 88-15-10962-5 .)
• The tombs of the pyramid era (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology, special volume: Ancient World. ). von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-3622-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Jánosi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the University of Vienna