Vladimir Semyonovich Golenishchev

Vladimir Golenishchev

Vladimir Golenishchev (also Vladimir Golenischeff, Russian Владимир Семёнович Голенищев ; born January 17 ^{. Jul} / 29 January 1856 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 5. August 1947 in Nice ) was a Russian Egyptologist .

Life

Vladimir Golenishchev was born in Saint Petersburg as the son of the merchant Semyon Golenishchev and his wife Sophia. After graduating from university in 1880, he worked at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg , where he became curator of the Egyptian collection in 1886 . He visited Egypt no less than 60 times and in the process put together an extensive private collection. The bankruptcy of the gold mining company in the Middle Urals , in which his family was involved, brought him to the brink of ruin. He was forced to sell his collection, but made sure that it remained in Russia, so that it was acquired by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow in 1911 , which greatly expanded its holdings. After the Russian Revolution he lived in Cairo and Nice and never returned to his homeland. From 1924 to 1929 he was a professor of Egyptology at Cairo University . For a while she was responsible for cataloging the hieratic papyri in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .

He published his first major work in 1877 on the Metternich stele and is particularly connected to some important papyri of the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum, which he discovered or acquired and published. In 1891 he bought the Moscow 120 papyrus with Wenamun's travelogue in the antique trade in Cairo , the Moscow 127 papyrus, the so-called "Moscow literary letter", which has also become known as the Odyssey of Wermai , and the Moscow papyrus 169 with the so-called Onomasticon of Amenope . In 1893 he acquired the Moscow 4676 mathematical papyrus . In the hermitage he discovered the papyrus Saint Petersburg in 1115 with the story of the shipwrecked man .

literature

• Warren R. Dawson, Eric P. Uphill, Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 3rd, revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London 1995, ISBN 0-85698-125-7 , p. 170.
• Reinhard Grieshammer: Golenischeff, Wladimir. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , column 480 f.

Web links

• List of publications by Vladimir Golenishchev