Winfried Barta

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Winfried Barta (born August 20, 1928 in Dresden ; died October 27, 1992 in Ebersberg ) was a German Egyptologist .

Life

Winfried Barta was born and raised in Dresden. In February 1945 he witnessed the air raids on Dresden . After graduating from high school in December 1946, he moved to the West. Since the rush to the big universities was too great at the time, he first studied philosophy and art history at the Philosophical-Theological Academy in Paderborn . Later he was able to switch to the University of Munich . Soon afterwards he had to break off his studies because he was without financial support due to the currency reform and the division of Germany . He then worked in an accounting department. At the same time he took singing lessons. Ferenc Fricsay then accepted the baritone Barta into the choir of the Bavarian State Opera . In 1957 he also began to study Egyptology, ancient history and ethnology at the University of Munich .

Barta did his doctorate in 1962 under Hans Wolfgang Müller on the ancient Egyptian list of victims. Then he was employed as a research assistant at the Egyptian State Collection until 1965. In the meantime he traveled to Egypt , Greece and Italy on a scholarship from the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) . After being employed at the State Collection, he became an assistant at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptology at the University of Munich. In 1967 he completed his habilitation there with a thesis on the victim formula. In 1971 he became a scientific councilor and in 1972 an adjunct professor. He received a call to Columbia University , which he did not accept. After Hans Wolfgang Müller retired , he became a full professor and head of the Institute for Egyptology and Coptic Studies. He was twice dean of the Philosophical Faculty and a member of the Senate of the University of Munich.

Barta's fields of research were the Egyptian religion , royalty, literature , language , chronology and time calculation. He focused on, among other things, the cult of the dead of kings, the names of kings, the statute of kings and the coronation rituals, the world of gods, religious literature and the calendar system. From the 1980s onwards, he paid greater attention to linguistics.

Barta died on October 27, 1992 after a long illness.

Fonts (selection)

  • Winfried Barta: The Ancient Egyptian List of Victims from the Early Period to the Greco-Roman Epoch (=  Munich Egyptological Studies . No. 3 ). Hessling, Berlin 1963.
  • Winfried Barta: structure and meaning of ancient Egyptian offering formula (=  Ägyptologische research . No. 24 ). Augustin, Glückstadt 1968, ISBN 978-3-87030-028-9 .
  • Winfried Barta: A man's conversation with his BA; (Papyrus Berlin 3024) (=  Munich Egyptological Studies . No. 18 ). Hessling, Berlin 1969.
  • Winfried Barta: The self-testimony of an ancient Egyptian artist; (Stele Louvre C 14) (=  Munich Egyptological Studies . No. 22 ). Hessling, Berlin 1970.
  • Winfried Barta: Investigations into the nine gods (=  Munich Egyptological Studies . No. 28 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1973, ISBN 978-3-422-00802-1 .
  • Winfried Barta: Investigations into the divinity of the ruling king; Rite and Sakralkönigtum in ancient Egypt by testimonies of the early period and the Old Kingdom (=  Munich Egyptological studies . No. 32 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1975, ISBN 978-3-422-00825-0 .
  • Winfried Barta: The meaning of the pyramid texts for the deceased king (=  Munich Egyptological studies . No. 39 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1981, ISBN 978-3-422-00802-1 .
  • Winfried Barta: The meaning of the books on the afterlife for the deceased king (=  Munich Egyptological studies . No. 42 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1985, ISBN 978-3-422-00836-6 .
  • Winfried Barta: Comparative studies on four underworld books (=  Munich Egyptological studies . No. 1 ). Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1990, ISBN 978-3-631-42143-7 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen von Beckerath : Winfried Barta, August 27, 1928-27. October 1992 . In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity . tape 120 , no. 2 , 1993, p. XIII-XV, here p. XIII .
  2. ↑ Jürgen von Beckerath : Winfried Barta, August 27, 1928-27. October 1992 . In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity . tape 120 , no. 2 , 1993, p. XIII-XV, here p. XIII .
  3. ↑ Jürgen von Beckerath : Winfried Barta, August 27, 1928-27. October 1992 . In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity . tape 120 , no. 2 , 1993, p. XIII-XV, here S. XIV .
  4. ↑ Dieter Kessler; Regine Schulz: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Winfried Barta . In: Göttinger Miscellen . tape 131 , 1992, pp. 5 .
personal data
SURNAME Barta, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1992
Place of death Ebersberg