Walther Wolf

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Walther Wolf (born November 24, 1900 in Hildesheim , † January 11, 1973 in Hamburg ) was a German Egyptologist and professor at the Universities of Leipzig and Münster .

Life

Walter Wolf studied at the universities of Heidelberg , Göttingen and Berlin . During his studies he became a member of the AMV Stauffia Heidelberg (in the Sondershäuser Association ). From 1922 he was employed as a research assistant at the Egyptian Museum Berlin . In 1923 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg and stayed in Cairo in 1926 at the German Institute for Egyptian Antiquity .

In 1928 he became a research assistant in Leipzig. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1934, when Georg Steindorff retired, Wolf was appointed associate professor. In 1939 he was appointed full professor and drafted into military service in the same year. In 1946 he did not return to Leipzig from captivity. Instead he became a visiting professor in Münster in 1949, where he set up an Egyptological seminar. There he was a full professor from 1959 to 1969.

From 1935 to 1939, Walther Wolf published the Leipzig Egyptological Studies , a series of publications for smaller monographs.

Fonts

  • The armament of the ancient Egyptian army. Prisma, Gütersloh 1978 (reprint of the Leipzig 1926 edition).
  • Individual and community in Egyptian culture (= Leipzig Egyptological studies. Vol. 1). Augustin, Glückstadt 1935.
  • Nature and value of Egyptology (= Leipzig Egyptological studies. Vol. 8). Augustin, Glückstadt 1937.
  • Cultural history of ancient Egypt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 321). 2nd Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-32102-5 (reprint of the 1962 edition).
  • Ancient egypt. (= Dtv Monographs on World History ) 2nd edition, Dtv, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-423-04332-6 .
  • edited by Théophile Sauvegot : The world of the Egyptians. Phaidon, Essen 1985, ISBN 3-88851-093-7 .
  • Early high cultures: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Aegean (= Bels style history . Vol. 1). Belser, Stuttgart 1969.

literature

  • Morris L. Bierbrier, Warren R. Dawson, Eric P. Uphill: Who was Who in Egyptology. 3. Edition. Egyptian Exploration Society, London 1995, ISBN 0-85698-125-7 , p. 451.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 135.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1973
Place of death Hamburg