Tanja Pommerening

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Tanja Pommerening (born October 25, 1969 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German Egyptologist who combines Egyptology and natural sciences as well as pharmacy in her research . Her focus areas include concepts of man and nature, natural science and medicine, as well as the history of knowledge and ancient Egyptian metrology.

Tanja Pommerening initially studied pharmacy at the University of Marburg from 1989 to 1994 , where she passed her third state examination in 1995 and obtained her license to practice medicine .

From 1997 to 2001, she also completed postgraduate studies in the history of pharmacy at the University of Marburg and, in parallel, a master's degree in Egyptology , history of pharmacy and natural science, and pharmaceutical biology , which she completed in 2001 with a Magister Artium . With a dissertation on the ancient Egyptian capacity measures it was in 2004 a doctorate . In 2005 she received the Dalberg Prize for transdisciplinary young researchers for her dissertation.

From 1999 to 2006 she worked at the University of Marburg as a research assistant at the Institute of History for Pharmacy and also took on her first teaching positions in Egyptology. From 2007 to 2010, her scientific work was funded by a three-year grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and by internal programs at the University of Mainz . In her funded project, she dealt with the topic The Medical Recipes of Ancient Egypt in their transdisciplinary context, viewed philologically, historically and pharmacologically . In 2008 and 2009 she interrupted the scholarship to work as a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 295 of the DFG ( cultural and linguistic contacts ) and at the Institute for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Mainz. In 2010 she was appointed professor of Egyptology at the University of Mainz - after a brief period as a substitute chair .

Since 2013, Pommerening has been the spokesperson for the DFG-funded Graduate School Early Concepts of Man and Nature. Universality, specificity, tradition and the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Ancient Medicine . In 2014 she received the award for young university teachers and scientists from the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz . In 2016 she was appointed a member of the Academy of Non-Profit Sciences in Erfurt . She has been the director of the Gutenberg Junior Research Training Group (GNK) at the University of Mainz since 2017 .

Publications (selection)

  • The ancient Egyptian measures of measure (=  studies of ancient Egyptian culture, supplements . Volume 10 ). Helmut Buske, 2005, ISBN 978-3-87548-411-3 , ISSN  0934-7879 (also: Dissertation 2004, University of Marburg).
  • Ways of identifying ancient Egyptian drug names - a critical consideration. In: Peter Dils & Lutz Popko (eds.): Between Philology and Lexicography of Egyptian-Coptic. Files of the Leipzig final conference of the academy project "Ancient Egyptian Dictionary" (= treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class. Vol. 84, No. 3). S. Hirzel , Stuttgart / Leipzig 2016, pp. 82–111.
  • Editor with Annette Imhausen : Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome and Greece. Translating Ancient Scientific Texts (= contributions to antiquity . Vol. 286). de Gruyter , Berlin et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022992-9 .
  • Editor with Annette Imhausen : Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Methodological Aspects with Examples (= contributions to antiquity . Vol. 344). de Gruyter , Berlin et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-044881-8 .
  • Editor with Walter Bisang : Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times. Sources, Methods, and Theories from an Interdisciplinary Perspective . de Gruyter , Berlin a. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-053877-9 .
  • Editor with Marion Gindhart : Beginning and End. Premodern scenarios of the creation and end of the world . Verlag Philipp von Zabern , Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8053-5032-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening | FB 07 - Institute for Classical Studies - Egyptology. Retrieved on February 20, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Alexander Hu: Gallery of the Academy - Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt. (No longer available online.) October 30, 2006, archived from the original on February 20, 2018 ; accessed on February 20, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akademie-erfurt.de
  3. ↑ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: The medical recipes of ancient Egypt in their transdisciplinary context viewed philologically, historically and pharmacologically | FB 07 - Institute for Classical Studies - Egyptology. Retrieved on February 20, 2018 (German).
  4. ^ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: History of Egyptology in Mainz | FB 07 - Institute for Classical Studies - Egyptology. Retrieved on February 20, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: DFG Graduate College "Early Concepts of Man and Nature" extended. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
  6. ^ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Interdisciplinary working group "Ancient Medicine" opened at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
  7. ^ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Awards and grants | FB 07 - Institute for Classical Studies - Egyptology. Retrieved on February 20, 2018 (German).
  8. ^ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Tanja Pommerening elected as the new director of the Gutenberg junior college. Retrieved February 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pommerening, Tanja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist and natural science historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main