Stephan Seidlmayer

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Stephan Johannes Seidlmayer (born September 25, 1957 in Würzburg ) is a German Egyptologist . Since May 1, 2009 he has been director of the Cairo department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) .

Scientific career

Stephan Seidlmayer is the son of the historian Michael Seidlmayer . His archaeological interest was piqued in the 1970s when he came across the mummified corpse of a cat while visiting his hometown of Würzburg. Since then he has dealt intensively with Egyptology. In 1978 he worked as an excavation assistant in the Nile Delta.

Seidlmayer studied Egyptology , Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , and in 1986 he worked with Jan Assmann in Heidelberg with a dissertation on Grave Fields from the Transition from the Old to the Middle Kingdom . PhD in Archeology of the First Intermediate Period . Subsequently, Seidlmayer worked until 1993 as a research assistant and university assistant at the Egyptological seminar at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and at the Egyptological seminar at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) . In 1994 he completed his habilitation in the Department of Classical Studies at the Free University of Berlin for the subject of Egyptology with his text Excavations in the north-west town of Elephantine 1979-1982: A burial ground of the Old and Middle Kingdom and other findings . In 1994 and 1995 Seidlmayer took over a professorship at the Egyptological Institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and from June 1998 to 2003 headed the Berlin office “Old Egyptian Dictionary” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBA) . Seidlmayer was a Heisenberg fellow from 1994 to 1998 from the German Research Foundation (DFG) .

In October 2002, on the basis of a cooperation agreement between the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) and the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), he was appointed academy professor (C4 professorship) for the field of Egyptology from the Senator for Science and Research of the State of Berlin called. Since 2003, this full-time professorship has been in charge of the entire “Ancient Egyptian Dictionary” project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Seidlmayer is equally dedicated to philology and archaeologist. So he developed the traditional ancient Egyptian dictionary into a digital corpus of ancient Egyptian text transmission. He has participated in numerous international excavation campaigns by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Austrian Archaeological Institute . From 2001 to 2009 Seidlmayer was responsible for the excavations at the pyramids of Dahschur , around 35 kilometers south of Cairo, which were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2009 he has been director of the DAI, Cairo department. There he wants to devote himself in particular to the expansion of bilateral relations between Egypt and Germany and in the future to do even more to ensure that Egyptian students of archeology and Egyptology receive a place at university in Germany. His publications include two monographs and articles in renowned specialist journals.

Seidlmayer has been a corresponding member of the DAI and the Austrian Archaeological Institute since 1999, and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2002 . Since 2002 he has also been a member of the Conseil de Fondation and the Comité Consultatif of the Michela Schiff Giorgini Foundation in Lausanne , since 2003 a member of the Commission for Egypt and Levant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2006 a full member of the humanities class of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences. Between 2004 and 2011 he was a member, from 2008 spokesman for the “Ancient Cultures” review board of the DFG. In 2014 he was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize , which he received on October 13, 2014.

Publications

  • Grave fields from the transition from the Old to the Middle Kingdom. Studies on the Archeology of the First Intermediate Period (= Studies on the Archeology and History of Ancient Egypt. Volume 1). Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 3-927552-01-1 (also dissertation University of Heidelberg 1986).
  • Historic and modern Nile stands. Investigations into the level readings of the Nile from the early days to the present (= Achet. Schriften zur Ägyptologie. Volume 1). Achet-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-9803730-8-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Herde: Michael Seidlmayer (1902–1961). In: Franconian pictures of life. New series of résumés from Franconia (= publications by the Society for Franconian History. Series VII A). Volume 23. Society for Franconian History, Würzburg 2012, pp. 211–226, here: p. 223.
  2. ^ German Archaeological Institute in Cairo with a new director ( Memento of May 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). On: aeggypt-tour-guide.de of April 29, 2009, last accessed on July 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Stephan Seidlmayer appointed to the academy professorship . On: uni-protocol.de of October 29, 2002; last accessed on July 4, 2014.
  4. ^ New members of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . On: idw-online.de of April 28, 2006; last accessed on July 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ German Research Foundation (DFG): Members of the review boards, term of office 2008 - 2011 (as of January 10, 2012). On: dfg.de PDF file .
  6. ↑ Gerda Henkel Foundation: Gerda Henkel Prize Winner 2014: Prof. Dr. Stephan Seidlmayer , accessed on July 4, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Seidlmayer, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidlmayer, Stephan Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg