Walter-Friedrich Reineke

Walter-Friedrich Reineke (born July 22, 1936 in Eisenach , † February 23, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German Egyptologist .

Walter-Friedrich Reineke passed his Abitur in 1954. He then studied Egyptology and African Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1958 he passed the diploma examination , the title of the diploma thesis was The measurement systems of the ancient Egyptians . As a scientific assistant he went to the Institute for Orient Research of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Later he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . With a doctoral thesis with Fritz Hintze and Siegfried Morenz he was in January 1965 with the thesis The mathematical texts of the ancient Egyptians. PhD. He was involved in several expeditions to Sudan . In February 1986 the doctorate B followed on the subject of thoughts and materials on the early history of mathematics in Egypt . In 1987 he became a professor at the East Berlin Academy.

Fonts

• Dictionary of the Egyptian language . Volume 7: Declining vocabulary. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1963.
• with Fritz Hintze : rock inscriptions from the Sudanese Nubia (= publication of the Nubia expedition 1961-1963. Volume 1). 2 volumes, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1989, ISBN 3-05-000370-7 .

literature

• Caris Beatrice Arnst (Ed.): Encounters - ancient cultures in the Nile valley. Festival ceremony for Erika Endesfelder, Karl-Heinz Priese, Walter Friedrich Reineke and Steffen Wenig. Wodtke & Stegbauer, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-934374-02-6 .
• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 500.
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , 2001.