Walter Wreszinski was a German Egyptologist and professor at Albertus University of Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

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Education

He studied in Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

 from 1898 to 1899, then in Berlin from 1899 to 1904 (under Adolf Erman

Adolf Erman

Johann Peter Adolf Erman was a renowned Egyptologist and lexicographer.-Life:Born in Berlin, he was the son of Georg Adolf Erman and grandson of Paul Erman....

). During this period he worked on the Dictionary of the Egyptian language.

In Berlin, he graduated in 1904 with a dissertation on The High Priest of Amon.

Following his graduation, he moved to Königsberg in 1909, initially as a lecturer, then from 1920 as Honorary Associate Professor, and from 1927 as Associate Professor.

From 1921 to 1931 Wreszinski was editor of the Orientalist literature journal.

In 1934, after the Law for the Restoration of Civil Service was passed by the Nazi Party led government, Wreszinski lost his professorship by reason of his Jewish ancestry.

Works

The five-volume Atlas of Ancient Egyptian culture history is considered his masterpiece.

• The high priest of Amon, Diss, Berlin 1904.
• Egyptian inscriptions from the K.K. Court Museum in Vienna, Leipzig 1906.
• The medicine of the ancient Egyptians I. The large medical papyrus in the Berlin Museum (Berl Pap. 3038
  Brugsch Papyrus
  The Brugsch Papyrus , also known as the Greater Berlin Papyrus, is an important ancient Egyptian medical papyrus. It was discovered by Giuseppe Passalacqua in Saqqara, Egypt. Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia acquired it in 1827 for the Berlin Museum, where it is still housed...
  
  ). In facsimile and transcription with translation, commentary and glossary, Leipzig 1909.
• The medicine of the ancient Egyptians II The London Medical Papyrus
  London Medical Papyrus
  The London Medical Papyrus is an Ancient Egyptian papyrus in the British Museum, London, England. The writings of this papyrus are of 61 recipes, of which 25 are classified as medical the remainder are of magic. The medical foci of the writing are skin complaints, eye complaints, bleeding and burns...
  
   (BM 10059) and the Papyrus Hearst
  Hearst papyrus
  The Hearst Papyrus, also called the Hearst Medical Papyrus, is one of the medical papyri of ancient Egypt. It was named after the mother of press magnate William Randolph Hearst. The papyrus contains 18 pages of medical prescriptions written in hieratic Egyptian writing, concentrating on treatments...
  
  . Transcription, translation and commentary, Leipzig 1912.
• The medicine of the ancient Egyptians III. The Papyrus Ebers
  Ebers papyrus
  The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus dating to circa 1550 BC. Among the oldest and most important medical papyri of ancient Egypt, it was purchased at Luxor, in the winter of 1873–74 by Georg Ebers...
  
  . Transcription, translation and commentary, Leipzig 1913th
• Lepsius: Monuments of Egypt and Ethiopia, Volume V, 1913.
• Atlas of ancient Egyptian cultural history, 5 vols, Leipzig 1913-1936.
• Report on the photographic expedition from Cairo to Wadi Halfa. Order to prepare and collect material for my Atlas of ancient Egyptian history, culture, Leipzig 1927

Literature

• Bierbrier, ML, Warren R. Dawson, Eric P. Uphill, Who's Who in Egyptology, London 1995, p. 452-453.