The Wörterbuch der äegyptischen Sprache (Dictionary of the Egyptian language) was a project by 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....

 and Hermann Grapow

Hermann Grapow

Hermann Grapow was a German Egyptologist.-Works:*Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, 7 Bände, Berlin, 1925 ff.*Anatomie und Physiologie, Berlin, 1954...

 to publish a comprehensive dictionary of Old

Old Egyptian

Old 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...

, Middle

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...

, and Late

Late

Late may refer to:* A deceased person or thing* Late , a 2000 album by The 77s* Late!, a pseudonym used by Dave Grohl on his Pocketwatch album* Late , an underground rapper from Wolverhampton* "Late" , a song by Blue Angel...

 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 the hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Greco-Roman

Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world...

 period. Undertaken from 1897 to 1961, the project centered mainly at the former Prussian Academy of Sciences

Prussian Academy of Sciences

The Prussian Academy of Sciences was an academy established in Berlin on 11 July 1700, four years after the Akademie der Künste or "Arts Academy", to which "Berlin Academy" may also refer.-Origins:...

 in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, and was therefore also known as the "Berlin Dictionary". With about 16,000 words it provides the most complete printed dictionary of Egyptian to date.

External links

• Volumes I–VI (in pdf)
• Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
• Brochure on the "Altägyptisches Wörterbuch" from the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften