Rainer Hannig (19 August 1952 – 29 January 2022) was a German Egyptologist.[1]
Rainer Hannig | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 August 1952 |
| Died | 29 January 2022 (aged 69) |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | University of Tübingen |
| Occupation | Egyptologist |
Biography
editHannig studied Egyptology, lexicography, and linguistics and earned a master's degree from the University of Tübingen in 1979.[2] From 1984 to 1987, he was a guest professor in Egyptology at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations and the Northeast Normal University.[3] From 1998 to 2000, he worked at the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim.[4] During this time, he led excursions to Egypt with the German Research Foundation. He discovered the tomb of Iri-en-achti, a king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt.[2]
In 2002, Hannig directed the project Wesirgrab-Projekt alongside Günter Dreyer at the German Archaeological Institute, which took place in a cemetery near the Pyramids of Giza. In 2003, he began teaching Egyptology as an honorary professor at the University of Marburg.[2] He was the author of Hannig-Lexica, a series of dictionaries which contained a complete collection of Ancient Egyptian words, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs and hieratics. In January 2022, Ägyptisches Wörterbuch III. Neues Reich was in the stages of being published. In June 2020, he published a website dedicated to research on the Voynich manuscript.[5]
Hannig died on 29 January 2022, at the age of 69.[6]
Publications
edit- Pseudopartizip und sDm.n=f. Der Kernbereich des mittelägyptischen Verbalsystems (1991)
- Die Sprache der Pharaonen. Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch (1995)[7]
- Wortschatz der Pharaonen in Sachgruppen. Kulturhandbuch Ägyptens (1999)
- Altes Reich und Erste Zwischenzeit (2003)
- Mittleres Reich und Zweite Zwischenzeit (2006)
- Zur Paläographie der Särge aus Assiut (2006)[8]
References
edit- ^ "Der Ägyptologe Rainer Hannig ist tot". Selket (in German). 30 January 2022.
- ^ a b c "Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Rainer Hannig" (PDF). rainer-hannig.com (in German).
- ^ "Welcome Address". Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations. Archived from the original on 12 July 2020.
- ^ "Forschungsprojekt Hannig Lexica". Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim (in German).
- ^ "Voynich". rainer-hannig.com (in German).
- ^ Der Ägyptologe Rainer Hannig ist tot (in German)
- ^ Allen, James P. (April 2004). "Die Sprache der Pharaonen: Großes Handwörterbuch Deutsch-Ägyptisch (2800–950 v. CHR.) . By Rainer Hannig. Hannig-Lexica 3. Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, vol. 86. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2000. Pp. Xxii + 1753. € 75.67". Journal of Near Eastern Studies (in German). 63 (2): 151–152. doi:10.1086/422294.
- ^ Willems, Harco; Hannig, Rainer (2006). Zur Paläographie der Särge aus Assiut. Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 47 (in German). Hildesheim: Gerstenberg. ISBN 3-8067-8569-4.