Johannes Dümichen was a German

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 Egyptologist.

Dümichen was born near Glogau. He studied philology

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 and theology

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 in Berlin

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 and Breslau. Subsequently he became a pupil of Karl Lepsius

Karl Richard Lepsius

Karl Richard Lepsius was a pioneering Prussian Egyptologist and linguist and pioneer of modern archaeology.-Background:...

 and Heinrich Brugsch

Heinrich Karl Brugsch

Heinrich Karl Brugsch was a German Egyptologist, born in Berlin. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis...

, and devoted himself to the study of Egyptian inscriptions. He travelled widely in Egypt

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, and published his results in a number of important books.

He was deputed by the Prussia

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n government to explore the Nile Valley in 1862 and 1868. He also accompanied the Prussian Crown Prince

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 to Egypt on the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal

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. In 1872 he was chosen professor of Egyptology at Strasbourg

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http://www.unistra.fr/index.php?id=349, where a new chair was created to compete with the famous chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France

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.

The value of his work consists not only in the stores of material which he collected, but also in the success with which he dealt with many of the problems raised by the inscriptions. Among his works are Bauurkunde des Tempels von Dendera (1865); Geographische Inschriften altägyptischer Denkmähler (4 vols., 1865 1885); Altägyptische Kalenderinschriften (1866); Altägypt. Tempelinschriften (2 vols., 1867); Historische Inschriften altägypt. Denkmäler (2 vols., 1867-1869); Baugeschichte und Beschreibung (1878); Die kalendarischen Opferfestlisten von Medinet-Habu (1881); Geschichte des alten Aegypten (1878-1883); and Der Grabpalast des Patuamenap in der thebanischen Nekropolis (1884-1894).