Raphael Giveon

Raphael Giveon , born Richard Grüneberg (born February 8, 1916 in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal ), † August 7, 1985 in Israel ), was a German-Israeli Egyptologist .

Life

Giveon came from a Jewish family who lived in Elberfeld. His parents were the textile salesman Ludwig Grüneberg and his wife Sophie, b. Mendel (1876-1943). Both were arrested in 1942 and deported to Theresienstadt , where they died the following year. They also had an older son Rudolf, who later lived in Edinburgh , and a daughter Ilse married. Lodner, who went to Israel .

Through his uncle Leo Grüneberg, Giveon came into contact with the Zionist movement early on . After completing secondary school and working as a carpenter, he attended a preparatory course ( Hachschara ) for Palestine emigrants in Berlin. At the age of 18 he joined Hashomer Hatzair , where he played an active role. He studied in England and later at the university in Paris. In 1938 he experienced the Reichspogromnacht in Elberfeld. Then he stayed in Vienna, where the Hashomer Hatzair concentrated after the rise of National Socialism. It was there that he met his future wife. Shortly before the outbreak of war, Giveon helped bring a group of young Jews to Israel. He then went to England on behalf of the movement, where he was temporarily interned in a prison camp as a German citizen, but after his convictions became known, he was released again and held a major position in the Zionist movement.

In 1945 he emigrated with his wife to Palestine, where they started a family and had two daughters. He worked as a farm laborer in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek . At the same time, he worked as a helper in archaeological excavations and then studied archeology. In the 1950s he published articles on the archeology of the Middle East. After completing his doctorate in the early 1960s and habilitation, he took over the chair of Egyptology at Tel Aviv University . Giveon has published books on his subject that have been translated into several languages. He died in Israel in 1985. A street in Wuppertal has been named after him since 2002.

Publications (selection)

• Les Bédouins Shosou des documents égyptiens. Brill, Leiden 1971.
• The stones of Sinai speak. Gakuseisha, Tokyo 1978.
• The impact of Egypt on Canaan: iconographical and related studies. University Press, Freiburg (CH); Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1978, ISBN 3-72780-181-6 .
• Egyptian scarabs from Western Asia from the collections of the British Museum. University Press, Freiburg (CH); Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985, ISBN 3-72780-332-0 .
• Egyptian scarabs and seals from Acco from the collection of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums. Universitätsverlag, Freiburg (CH) 1986, ISBN 3-72780-371-1 .
• Scarabs from recent excavations in Israel. University Press, Freiburg (CH); Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-72780-581-1 .

literature

• Mordechai Gilula: Prof. Raphael Giveon (1916–1985) - In Memoriam. In: Journal of the Tel Aviv University Institute of Archeology 12 (1985).
• Ernst-Andreas Ziegler : In search of the Wuppertal soul. Stories from a very special city. Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1996, ISBN 3-87093-078-0 , p. 139 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Raphael Giveon in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sophie Green Mountain gedenkbuch-wuppertal.de, accessed on 18 November 2012 found.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Biography (Hebrew) ( Memento from January 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Name of the street after Prof. Dr. Raphael Giveon jugendring.wtal.de, accessed on November 18, 2012.