Einführung in die Ägyptologie: Stand - Methoden - Aufgaben

by Erik Hornung

Immer noch ist unser Gesamtbild der altägyptischen Kultur in stetiger Bewegung. Der Verfasser versucht, einen knappen, aber möglichst vollständigen Abriss seines Faches vorzulegen.
Von der Entstehung der Wissenschaft der Ägyptologie ausgehend werden Schrift und Sprache, Literatur und Musik, Religion, Staat, geisteswissenschaftliche Grundlagen, Geschichte, Archäologie und Kunst der alten Ägypter behandelt.
Durch die Erschließung der Primärquellen seit Champollion und zahlreiche Ausgrabungen wird das Originalbild der altägyptischen Kultur allmählich von späteren Zutaten befreit; daraus ergeben sich neue und vielleicht tiefere Schichten ergreifende Möglichkeiten einer Begegnung des Abendlandes mit Ägypten.

Genres: History

163 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Hornung was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1933 and gained his PH.D. at the University of Tübingen in 1956.
He was Professor of Egyptology at the University of Basel from 1967 to 1998.
His main research field has been funerary literature, the Valley of the Kings in particular.
He published the first edition of the Book of Amduat in three volumes between 1963 and 1967.
J. Gwyn Griffiths described Hornung as the foremost authority in such literature.
His book Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt, The One and the Many has become his best-known work, in which he concludes, whilst acknowledging previous work by Henri Frankfort and his "multiplicity of approaches" and John A. Wilson's "complementary" treatment of Egyptian modes of thought, that "Anyone who takes history seriously will not accept a single method as definitive; the same should be true of anyone who takes belief seriously".
Hornung became Vice-President of the Society of the Friends of the Royal Tombs of Egypt in 1988. His books have been published in German, but many have been translated into English.

Reviews

[Hicret Kırtay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beklediğim kadar ayrıntılı bir derleme değildi. Başlığı gibi evet mısırbilime giriş olaraksa bilmediğim bazı bilgileri öğrendim. Kardeşle ve hatta kızıyla bile evlenen mısır kralları oluyormuş ama bu durum halkta gözlenmiyormuş. Devlet yönetimi, din, edebiyat, arkeoloji, kültler ufak ufak anlatılmış. Ama tatmin olmadım.

[Dani Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Para sacar referencias y enloquecer de información 💪🏻

[Tasja · Rating 3 out of 5]

kinda outdated with the lit references