Detlef Franke (24 November 1952 – 2 September 2007) was a German Egyptologist specialist of the
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (also known as The Period of Reunification) is the period in the history of ancient Egypt following a period of political division known as the First Intermediate Period of Egypt, First Intermediate Period. The Middl ...
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Biography
Detlef Franke received his doctorate at the
University of Hamburg
The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...
in 1983 with his thesis "''Altägyptische Verwandtschaftsbezeichnungen im Mittleren Reich''" ("The ancient Egyptian kingship in the Middle Kingdom"). He then received his
habilitation
Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...
at the
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public university, public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is List ...
in 1994 with his work "''Das Heiligtum des Heqaib auf Elephantine. Geschichte eines Provinzheiligtums im Mittleren Reich''" ("On the sanctuary of
Heqaib on
Elephantine
Elephantine ( ; ; ; ''Elephantíne''; , ) is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological site, archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of ...
. History of a provincial sanctuary in the Middle Kingdom"). He subsequently taught as a lecturer at this university until his death.
Throughout his career, Detlef Franke researched mainly the Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
[ Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert: ''Detlef Franke (1952–2007).'' in: ''Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde'', volume 135, 2010, p. III–XI ()] His last project was the creation of a catalog of the
stela
A stele ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stela ...
e of the Middle Kingdom housed in the British Museum.
Detlef Franke: The Middle Kingdom Stelae Publication Project
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Publications
* ''Altägyptische Verwandtschaftsbezeichnungen im Mittleren Reich'' (= ''Hamburger ägyptologische Studien.'' H. 3). Borg, Hamburg 1983, (University of Hamburg, thesis dissertation, 1983).
* ''Personendaten aus dem Mittleren Reich. (20.–16. Jahrhundert v. Chr.). Dossiers 1–796'' (= ''Ägyptologische Abhandlungen.'' vol. 41). Otto Harrrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984, .
* ''Zur Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches (12.-18. Dynastie) Teil 1 : Die 12. Dynastie'', in Orientalia 57 (1988)
* ''Zur Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches. Teil II: Die sogenannte Zweite Zwischenzeit Altägyptens'', in Orientalia 57 (1988)
* ''Das Heiligtum des Heqaib auf Elephantine. Geschichte eines Provinzheiligtums im Mittleren Reich'' (= ''Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens.'' vol. 9). Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 1994, (University of Heidelberg, habilitation dissertation, 1991).
* ''Theben und Memphis – Metropolen in Ägypten.'' In: Michael Jansen, Bernd Roeck (Hg): ''Entstehung und Entwicklung von Metropolen'' (= ''Veröffentlichungen der Interdisziplinären Arbeitsgruppe Stadtkulturforschung.'' (VIAS) vol. 4). 2002,
PDF document available online
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* With Marcel Marée (as editor): ''Egyptian Stelae in the British Museum from the 13th-17th Dynasties: Fascicule I: Descriptions v. I'', London 2013,
See also
* List of Egyptologists
This is a partial list of Egyptologists. An Egyptologist is any archaeologist, historian, linguistics, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities. Demotists are Egyptologists ...
References
External links
The Middle Kingdom Stelae Publication Project, exemplified by stela BM EA 226
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1952 births
2007 deaths
German Egyptologists
People from Lüneburg
German male non-fiction writers
Archaeologists from Lower Saxony