Walter Wreszinski

Walter Wreszinski (born March 18, 1880 in Mogilno , Posen Province , † April 9, 1935 in Königsberg , East Prussia ) was a German Egyptologist and professor at the Albertus University of Königsberg .

Walter Wreszinski left the province of Poznan with his Jewish father at the age of three. He passed his Abitur in Berlin. He studied from 1898 to 1899 in Leipzig and from 1899 to 1904 in Berlin with Adolf Erman . During this time he also worked on the dictionary of the Egyptian language . In Berlin he received his doctorate in 1904 with a dissertation on "The High Priests of Amon". Since his habilitation on the history of medicine in Egypt in 1909, he was initially active as a private lecturer in Königsberg, from 1920 as a full honorary professor and from 1927 as a regular associate professor. In 1907/08 and 1913/13 he was in Egypt for excavations. From 1921 to 1931 Wreszinski was editor of the Orientalist literary newspaper . Due to the law to restore the civil service , his professorship was revoked in 1934 due to his Jewish origin. the Extraordinariat was transferred to the University of Göttingen until 1934 . He was a member of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith . His wife Leonore geb. Oppler died in Brazil after 1941.

The three-volume atlas on ancient Egyptian cultural history is considered to be his main work.

Works

• The high priests of Amon , Diss., Berlin 1904.

• Egyptian inscriptions from the KK Hofmuseum in Vienna , Leipzig 1906.

• The medicine of the ancient Egyptians I. The great medical papyrus of the Berlin Museum (Pap. Berl. 3038). In facsimile and inscription with translation, commentary and glossary , Leipzig 1909.

• The Medicine of the Ancient Egyptians II. The London Medical Papyrus (BM 10059) and the Hearst Papyrus. Transcription, translation and commentary , Leipzig 1912.

• The medicine of the ancient Egyptians III. The Ebers papyrus. Transcription, translation and commentary , Leipzig 1913.

• Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia , Vol. V, 1913.

• Atlas of ancient Egyptian cultural history , 5 vols., Leipzig 1913–1936.

• Report on the photographic expedition from Cairo to Wadi Halfa. To complete the material collection for my atlas on ancient Egyptian cultural history , Leipzig 1927.

literature

• ML Bierbrier, Warren R. Dawson, Eric P. Uphill: Who is Who in Egyptology. London 1995, pp. 452-453.
• Alexander Schütze: An Egyptologist in Koenigsberg. On the dismissal of Walter Wreszinkis in 1933/34. In: Susanne Bickle, Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert, Antonio Loprieno, Sebastian Richter (eds.): Egyptologists and Egyptologies between the Empire and the founding of the two German states. Akademie Verlag 2013.
• Christian Tilitzki : The Albertus University in Königsberg - its history from the founding of the Empire to the fall of the Province of East Prussia (1871-1945) , Vol. 1 (1871-1918), Akademie Verlag 2012, p. 645 ISBN 9783050043128