Susanne Bickel

Susanne Bickel (* 1960 in Rome ) is a Swiss Egyptologist .

Life

From 1979 to 1984 she studied Egyptology, Coptic Studies and German Studies in Geneva . She was an assistant in Egyptology at the University of Geneva (1984–1989). After completing her doctorate at the University of Geneva in 1993 with the thesis Les notions de cosmogonie avant le Nouvel Empire, she lectured as a lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Friborg (2000–2011). From 1989 to 1995, she worked as a freelance researcher at the Swiss Institute for Egyptian Building Research and Classical Studies, Cairo . From 1992 to 2000 she was an Egyptologist and editor at the French Archaeological Institute in Cairo (Ifao). She was an assistant at the Egyptological seminar at the University of Basel from 2000 to 2006. She was curator of the Egyptian collection at the BIBEL + ORIENT Museum and heads the SNSF project Life Histories of Theban Tombs and the University of Basel Kings' Valley Project . Since autumn 2006 she has been teaching Extraordinaria for Egyptology in Basel and became Professor for Egyptology in 2015 .

Her main research interests are archeology (funerary archeology of the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period), religious studies and cultural studies (development and implementation of religious ideas and funerary literature of the 3rd and 2nd millennia) as well as iconography and epigraphy (temple iconography). She is co-editor of the journals Archive for Religious History , Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis (Friborg, Göttingen ) and the Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprach und Altertumskunde ( Berlin ). Susanne Bickel has been a board member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2016 and was President of the Swiss Society for Oriental Classical Studies (2006–2012) and board member of the Conseils scientifique et administratif de l ' Institut français d'archéologie orientale (2008–2011).

Fonts (selection)

• La cosmogonie Egyptienne. Avant le nouvel empire (= Orbis biblicus et orientalis. Volume 134). Ed. Univ./Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Friborg / Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-53769-7 (also dissertation, Geneva 1993).
• In Egyptian company. Aegyptiaca of the Bibles + Orient collections at the University of Friborg Switzerland . Acad. Press, Friborg 2004, ISBN 3-7278-1429-2 .
• as editor: images as sources. Images as sources. Studies on ancient Near Eastern artefacts and the Bible inspired by the work of Othmar Keel (= Orbis biblicus et orientalis. Special volume). Ed. Univ./Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Friborg / Göttingen 2008, ISBN 3-525-53032-3 .
• as editor: past and future. Studies on historical consciousness in the Thutmosid period (= Aegyptiaca Helvetica. Volume 22). Schwabe, Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7965-3204-7 .
• as editor with Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert , Antonio Loprieno and Tonio Sebastian Richter : Egyptologists and Egyptology between the Empire and the founding of the two German states. Reflections on the history and episteme of an ancient science subject in the 150th year of the Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (= Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity. Supplement 1). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-05-006340-8 .
• as editor: Egypt and ancient Near East - perceptions of alterity (= Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archeology of the Ancient Near East. 9–13 June 2014. Volume 2). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 3-447-10614-X .

Web links

• University of Basel
• Basle Egyptologist Susanne Bickel: It is important to save what can be saved. In: bz Basel. January 3, 2018, accessed March 12, 2020.