Rainer Hannig

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Rainer HG Hannig (born August 19, 1952 in Eime ) is a German Egyptologist .

Hannig studied Egyptology, linguistics and social work in Dortmund, Göttingen, Heidelberg and Tübingen. In Tübingen, he obtained his master's degree in 1979 with the work Narration and Speech in Papyrus Westcar . In Heidelberg he was with the thesis The core of the Middle Egyptian verbal system doctorate . From 1984 to 1987 he was visiting professor for Egyptology at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations at Northeast Normal University in Changchun and thus the first lecturer for Egyptology in China. In the 1990s, Rainer Hannig worked at the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim. During this time, as part of a DFG project, there was the possibility of research stays in Egypt, where he discovered the grave of Iri-en-Achti, a previously unknown vizier from the 6th dynasty. In 2002, together with Günter Dreyer, he led the vizier grave project, an excavation carried out by the German Archaeological Institute on the mastaba cemetery of the pyramid complex in Giza . Rainer Hannig has been teaching Egyptology as an honorary professor at the University of Marburg since 2003 , where he completed his habilitation in 2008 . Rainer Hannig is the author of the Hannig-Lexica, a dictionary series that contains the world's most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian words from hieroglyphic and hieratic texts for the period from the Old to the New Kingdom . So far, 5 volumes of the Hannig Lexica have been published. The 6th volume “Egyptian Dictionary III New Kingdom” is in preparation.

Hannig researches the Voynich manuscript . In June 2020 he published an interpretation according to which the underlying language should be ancient (late medieval) Hebrew .

Rainer Hannig is married to the Egyptologist Daniela Rutica and lives in Warstein .

Works

  • Hannig-Lexica: The language of the pharaohs. (2800-950 BC)
    • Volume 1: The language of the pharaohs. Large concise dictionary of Egyptian and German (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 64). 6th, unchanged edition, von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8053-4935-2 .
    • Volume 2: Rainer Hannig, Petra Vomberg: Vocabulary of the Pharaohs in subject groups. Culture Handbook of Egypt (= cultural history of the ancient world. Volume 72). 2nd Edition. von Zabern, Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-8053-4473-9 .
    • Volume 3: The Language of the Pharaohs. Large concise German-Egyptian dictionary (= cultural history of the ancient world. Volume 86). 2nd, unchanged edition. von Zabern, Mainz 2014, ISBN 978-3-8053-4759-4 .
    • Volume 4: Old Empire and First Intermediate Period (= cultural history of the ancient world. Volume 98). von Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3088-X .
    • Volume 5: Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (= cultural history of the ancient world. Volume 112). von Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-3690-X .
  • On the palaeography of the coffins from Assiut (= Hildesheim Egyptological contributions. Volume 47). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-8067-8569-4 .
  • Pseudoparticiple and sDm.n = f. The core area of ​​the Middle Egyptian verbal system II. (= Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Posts. Volume 32) Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1991, ISBN 3-8067-8123-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Hannig: Voynich-Hebrew. The way to decryption. June 7, 2020, accessed June 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hannig, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hannig, Rainer HG
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Eime