Tonio Sebastian Richter

Tonio Sebastian Richter (* 1967 in Leipzig ) is an Egyptologist specializing in Coptic Studies .

Life

Richter was born in Leipzig in 1967 . Between 1987 and 1992 he attended church universities in Leipzig and Naumburg , where he studied Protestant theology and worked on the Hasmonean coins as a mirror of the economic and cultural history of Judea in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. . Chr his diploma reached. From 1992 to 1996 he studied Egyptology with Elke Blumenthal at the University of Leipzig . In addition, he dealt with coptology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . For his master's degree he presented a thesis on preliminary work for a catalog of the Coptic and Greek ostracas, papyri and steles from the collection of the Egyptian Museum at the University of Leipzig . In 1999 he started working on legal semantics and forensic rhetoric. PhD studies on vocabulary, grammar and style of the language of Coptic legal documents .

In 2005 Richter completed his habilitation with a thesis on lease according to Coptic sources. Contributions to the legal, economic and social history of Byzantine and early Arab Egypt and thus received the venia legendi for Egyptology with a focus on Coptology. Since then he has held several offices at the University of Leipzig and represented the chair holder Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert in his visiting professorships at Yale University . From 2011 to 2014 he was a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation.

In 2014 Richter was appointed professor of Egyptology with a focus on coptology at the Free University of Berlin . Since 2015 he has also been an academy professor at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and is in charge of the academy project Structures and Transformations of the Vocabulary of the Egyptian Language. Text and knowledge culture in ancient Egypt . In 2018 he was accepted as a member of this academy.

Richter is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute .

Fonts

• Further observations on the Coptic Cambyses novel. In: Enchoria. 24. 1997/1998, pp. 54-66.
• Legal semantics and forensic rhetoric. Studies on the vocabulary, style and grammar of the language of Coptic legal documents. In: Kanobos. 3. Leipzig 2002.
• The thief, the cook, his wife and their lover. In: Collecteanea magica for Hans-W. Fischer Elfert (= Enchoria. 29). 2004/2005, pp. 67-78.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tonio Sebastian Richter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage (FU Berlin)