Helmut Satzinger
Encyclopedia
Helmut Satzinger is an Austria
n Egyptologist and Coptologist
. He studied Egyptology
, Arabic Philology
and African Languages
at the University of Vienna
and, for 1 year, at Cairo University
. Immediately after obtaining his PhD degree
in 1964, he became commissioned to catalogue and publish Copt
ic papyri in the West Berlin section of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin
.
Five years later he was appointed Assistant Curator at the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum
in Vienna
and in 1977 he became the Head of the Department.
In 1978 he was attested the qualification for academic lecturing (habilitation) in Egyptology at Vienna University. Since then, he has been regularly giving courses, mainly in Middle Egyptian
, Late Egyptian
, and Egyptian Epigraphy
, Art
, and Museology
, in Vienna, but also in Hamburg
(1980), Munich (1993), at Cairo University
(2000), and in Belgrade
(2004, 2005). He supervised some twenty egyptological and coptological theses. Satzinger retired from his curatorial work in 2003.
Till then, his egyptological research activities were evenly distributed between the museum (catalogues, epigraphic publications, etc.) and linguistics
and (or) philology
, in the main Egyptian
and Coptic
. Of late, he intensified his research in Afro-Asiatic language relations.
and exhibition catalogue
s, and presentations of the Vienna Egyptian collection and its history.
More than 130 articles on Egyptological and Coptological issues, Afro-Asiatic languages
, Old Nubian, etc.; about fifty book reviews.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n Egyptologist and Coptologist
Coptic language
Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...
. He studied Egyptology
Egyptology
Egyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...
, Arabic Philology
Arabic literature
Arabic literature is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is adab which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and implies politeness, culture and enrichment....
and African Languages
African languages
There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families:*Afro-Asiatic spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel...
at the University of Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
and, for 1 year, at Cairo University
Cairo University
Cairo University is a public university located in Giza, Egypt.The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought...
. Immediately after obtaining his PhD degree
Ph.D.
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in 1964, he became commissioned to catalogue and publish Copt
Copt
The Copts are the native Egyptian Christians , a major ethnoreligious group in Egypt....
ic papyri in the West Berlin section of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin
Egyptian Museum of Berlin
The Egyptian Museum of Berlin is home to one of the world's most important collections of Ancient Egyptian artifacts.The collection is part of the Neues Museum.-History:...
.
Five years later he was appointed Assistant Curator at the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, it is crowned with an octagonal dome...
in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
and in 1977 he became the Head of the Department.
In 1978 he was attested the qualification for academic lecturing (habilitation) in Egyptology at Vienna University. Since then, he has been regularly giving courses, mainly in Middle Egyptian
Middle Egyptian
Middle Egyptian is the typical form of Egyptian written from 2000 BCE to 1300 BCE .Although evolving into Late Egyptian from the 14th century, Middle Egyptian remained in use as literary standard language until the 4th century AD. As such, it is the classical variant of Egyptian that historically...
, Late Egyptian
Late Egyptian
Late Egyptian is the stage of the Egyptian language that was written by the time of the New Kingdom around 1350 BC – the Amarna period. Texts written wholly in Late Egyptian date to the Ramesside Period and later...
, and Egyptian Epigraphy
Epigraphy
Epigraphy Epigraphy Epigraphy (from the , literally "on-writing", is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing; that is, the science of identifying the graphemes and of classifying their use as to cultural context and date, elucidating their meaning and assessing what conclusions can be...
, Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, and Museology
Museology
Museology is the diachronic study of museums and how they have established and developed in their role as an educational mechanism under social and political pressures.-Overview:...
, in Vienna, but also in Hamburg
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...
(1980), Munich (1993), at Cairo University
Cairo University
Cairo University is a public university located in Giza, Egypt.The university was founded on December 21, 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national center for educational thought...
(2000), and in Belgrade
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...
(2004, 2005). He supervised some twenty egyptological and coptological theses. Satzinger retired from his curatorial work in 2003.
Till then, his egyptological research activities were evenly distributed between the museum (catalogues, epigraphic publications, etc.) and linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
and (or) philology
Philology
Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...
, in the main Egyptian
Egyptian language
Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known. Egyptian was spoken until the late 17th century AD in the...
and Coptic
Coptic language
Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...
. Of late, he intensified his research in Afro-Asiatic language relations.
Books
- NeuägyptischLate EgyptianLate Egyptian is the stage of the Egyptian language that was written by the time of the New Kingdom around 1350 BC – the Amarna period. Texts written wholly in Late Egyptian date to the Ramesside Period and later...
e Studien. Die Partikel ir - Das Tempussystem. Vienna, 1976. - Die negativen Konstruktionen im AltOld EgyptianOld Egyptian is the stage of the Egyptian language spoken from 2600 BC to 2000 BC during the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period. The Pyramid Texts are the largest body of literature written in this phase of the language. Tomb walls of elite Egyptians from this period bear autobiographical...
- und MittelägyptischenMiddle EgyptianMiddle Egyptian is the typical form of Egyptian written from 2000 BCE to 1300 BCE .Although evolving into Late Egyptian from the 14th century, Middle Egyptian remained in use as literary standard language until the 4th century AD. As such, it is the classical variant of Egyptian that historically...
. Berlin, 1968. - KoptischeCoptThe Copts are the native Egyptian Christians , a major ethnoreligious group in Egypt....
Urkunden III. Ägyptische Urkunden aus den Staatlichen Museen BerlinEgyptian Museum of BerlinThe Egyptian Museum of Berlin is home to one of the world's most important collections of Ancient Egyptian artifacts.The collection is part of the Neues Museum.-History:...
. Berlin, 1968. - Stelen, Inschriftsteine und Reliefs aus der Zeit der 18. DynastieEighteenth dynasty of EgyptThe eighteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt is perhaps the best known of all the dynasties of ancient Egypt...
. With Michaela Hüttner. Mainz 1999. - Stelen des Mittleren ReichesMiddle Kingdom of EgyptThe Middle Kingdom of Egypt is the period in the history of ancient Egypt stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Fourteenth Dynasty, between 2055 BC and 1650 BC, although some writers include the Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties in the Second Intermediate...
einschließlich der I. und II. Zwischenzeit. Part II. With Irmgard Hein. Mainz 1993. - Stelen des Mittleren ReichesMiddle Kingdom of EgyptThe Middle Kingdom of Egypt is the period in the history of ancient Egypt stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Fourteenth Dynasty, between 2055 BC and 1650 BC, although some writers include the Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties in the Second Intermediate...
einschließlich der I. und II. Zwischenzeit. Part I. With Irmgard Hein. Mainz, 1989. - Das Kunsthistorische Museum in Wien: Die Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung. Mainz, 1994.
Further publications
Several museumCollection catalog
In museums and archives, the collection of objects or material is normally catalogued in a collection catalog . Traditionally this was done using a card index, but nowadays it is normally implemented using a computerized database and may even be made available online.- External links :* from the...
and exhibition catalogue
Exhibition catalogue
There are two types of exhibition catalogue : a printed list of exhibits at an art exhibition; and a directory of exhibitors at a trade fair or business-to-business event.-Art or museum exhibition catalogues:...
s, and presentations of the Vienna Egyptian collection and its history.
More than 130 articles on Egyptological and Coptological issues, Afro-Asiatic languages
Afro-Asiatic languages
The Afroasiatic languages , also known as Hamito-Semitic, constitute one of the world's largest language families, with about 375 living languages...
, Old Nubian, etc.; about fifty book reviews.
Studies in Honour of Helmut Satzinger
- Monika R. M. Hasitzka—Johannes Diethart—Günther Dembski (eds.), Das alte Ägypten und seine Nachbarn. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Helmut Satzinger, mit Beiträgen zur Ägyptologie, Koptologie, Nubiologie und Afrikanistik. Krems, 2003 http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:-WKctIPQfNoJ:rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~iacs/satzfest.pdf+nachbarn+hasitzka+satzinger&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=at
External links
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Satzinger
- http://homepage.univie.ac.at/helmut.satzinger/Wurzelverzeichnis/indEngl.html
- http://www.archeogate.it/iice/scheda.php?nome=Helmut&cognome=Satzinger