Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen

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Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen (born Verhoeven, born April 20, 1957 in Hagen ) is a German Egyptologist .

Life

Ursula Verhoeven studied Egyptology , Ethnology , Art History, and Prehistory and Early History at the University of Cologne from 1975 to 1983 . It was in 1983 with a thesis on "grilling, cooking, baking everyday life and ritual in ancient Egypt" doctorate . In 1985 she received a one-year travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . She toured Egypt , Israel , Jordan , Sudan , Syria and Turkey , among others . From 1986 to 1991 she was a research assistant at the University of Cologne as part of the project “Kölner Totenbuchrolle” ( Book of the Dead of the Night of the Dead) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) .

From 1992 to 1995 she received a grant from the DFG to prepare for her habilitation . She completed her habilitation in Egyptology in 1995, and her habilitation thesis was entitled: "Investigations into Late Hieratic Book Script" . From 1995 to 1997 she was a research assistant at the University of Bonn , where she was involved in the DFG's "New Edition of the Book of the Dead" project.

Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen has been Professor of Egyptology at the University of Mainz since February 1998 . In 2007 she received the Academy Award of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . In 2009 she turned down an offer at the University of Munich . She has been a full member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) since 2009 and is a member of its central management. From 2009 to 2019 Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen Secretary General was the International Egyptologists Association ( International Association of Egyptologists - IAE), since 2011 she has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.

Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen also leads the excavations in Asyut in Middle Egypt ( The Asyut Project ) with Jochem Kahl .

Fonts (selection)

  • Grilling, cooking, baking in everyday life and in the ritual of ancient Egypt. A lexicographical contribution. , Rites égyptiens IV, Brussels 1984
  • Le voyage de la déesse libyque. A text from the “Mutritual” of the Papyrus Berlin 3053. Rites égyptiens V, Brussels 1985
  • The Saitic Book of the Dead of Month Priest Nespasefy from the time of Psammetich I. Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3447039493
  • Investigations into the late Hieratic book script. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 99, Leuven 2001, ISBN 9042909323

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences . Volume 2004-2005, ISBN 3515076727 , p. 613.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on November 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Verhoeven-van Elsbergen, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen