Peter Munro

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Peter Munro (born January 8, 1930 in Hamburg ; † January 2, 2009 in Hanover ) was a German Egyptologist and long-time director of the Kestner Museum in Hanover.

Munro studied Egyptology, Classical Archeology and Semitic Studies at the Universities of Hamburg , Göttingen and Cairo . In 1957 he was at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on The Horus conduct and related standards groups in the Egyptian cult doctorate . From 1957 to 1960 he worked as a lecturer at the Goethe Institute in Cairo, in 1963 as a scholarship holder from the German Research Foundation and from 1963 to 1965 as a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service . His habilitation took place in Munich in 1967 with a thesis on The Late Egyptian Stelae . The comprehensive work was later published as a two-volume anthology in the Ancient Egyptian Research series and dealt with all of the grave stelae from the 1st millennium BC known at the time. In 1985 a supplementary volume was published in Brussels.

From 1970 to 1981 he was director of the Kestner Museum, succeeding Irmgard Woldering . He founded the association “Antike & Gegenwart e. V. ", which finances a large part of the new acquisitions through donations. His greatest achievements include the purchase of a Romanesque bronze chandelier from the Hirsch collection and a limestone head of Pharaoh Akhenaten, as well as a permanent Egyptian exhibition that was realized by the architect Thilo Mucke . The special exhibitions he initiated included “Mysterious Naples ” (1978), “ El Dorado - The Dream of Gold” (1979) and an exhibition on Tutankhamun (1981). In 1972 he was re-qualified as a professor at the Technical University of Hanover with a teaching position in Egyptian history of architecture and art, and in 1974 he was made an adjunct professor. In 1970 he was also one of the driving forces behind the " Standing Conference of Egyptologists ". He took part in excavations in Saqqara and opened up parts of the Unas cemetery. In 1978 he was a co-founder of the Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum project , a loose-leaf collection of ancient Egyptian museum holdings.

In 1981 Munro became Professor of Egyptian Archeology and Art at the Free University of Berlin , where he taught until his retirement in 1995. Even after leaving university, he continued to research in Saqqara.

literature

  • The escort of Horus and related standard groups in the Egyptian cult . PhD thesis. Heidelberg 1957.
  • The late Egyptian stelae . Habilitation thesis. Augustin, Glückstadt 1968. Text volume and panel volume 1973.
  • Tutankhamun . von Zabern, Mainz 1980. Various exhibition volumes.
  • The Unas cemetery north-west / 1, topographical-historical introduction, the double grave of the queens Nebet and Khenut. von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 978-3-8053-1353-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of Prof. Dr. Peter Munro. January 20, 2009, accessed December 6, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Munro, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2009
Place of death Hanover