Helmut Satzinger (born January 21, 1938, in Linz) is an

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , ''-logia''; ) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end ...

and

Coptologist Coptology is the scientific study of the Copts, Coptic people. Origin The European interest in Coptology may have started as early as the 15th century AD. The term was used in 1976 when the First International Congress of Coptology was held in ...

. He studied

Egyptology Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Ancient Greek, Greek , ''wiktionary:-logia, -logia''; ) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian History of Egypt, history, Egyptian language, language, Ancient Egypt ...

, Arabic Philology and

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at the university of

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and, for 1 year, at

Cairo University Cairo University () is Egypt's premier public university. Its main campus is in Giza, immediately across the Nile from Cairo. It was founded on 21 December 1908;"Brief history and development of Cairo University." Cairo University Faculty of En ...

. Immediately after obtaining his

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in 1964, he became commissioned to catalogue and publish

Copt Copts (; ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to Northeast Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity. They are, like the broader Egyptian population, descended from the ancient Egyptians. Copts pre ...

papyri Papyrus ( ) is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, ''Cyperus papyrus'', a wetland sedge. ''Papyrus'' (plural: ''papyri'' or ''papyruses'') can ...

in the West Berlin section of the

Egyptian Museum of Berlin The Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of Berlin () is home to one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artefacts, including the Nefertiti Bust. Since 1855, the collection is a part of the Neues Museum on Berlin's ...

. Five years later he was appointed Assistant Curator at the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection of the

Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ( "Vienna Museum of art history, Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, i ...

and in 1977 he became the Head of the department. In 1978 he was attested the qualification for academic lecturing (''habilitation'') in Egyptology at

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. Since then, he has been regularly giving courses, mainly in

Middle Egyptian The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (; ), is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world f ...

Late Egyptian The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (; ), is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world fo ...

, and Egyptian

Epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

Art Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

, and

Museology Museology (also called museum studies or museum science) is the study of museums. It explores the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in, including curating, preservation, public programming, and ed ...

, in Vienna, but also in

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(1980),

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(1993), at

(2000), and in

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(2004, 2005). He supervised more than forty Egyptological and Coptological theses (PhD and MA). 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 is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and (or)

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

, in the main

Egyptian ''Egyptian'' describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of year ...

and Coptic. Of late, he intensified his research in

Afro-Asiatic language The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the ...

relations. __NOTOC__

Books

* ''Egyptian Root Lexicon.'' With Danijela Stefanović. Hamburg, 2021. * ''Is there not one among you who understands Egyptian? The Late Egyptian Language: Structure of its Grammar.'' Golden House Publications, London 2020. * ''Stelae of the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period: Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin'', with Danijela Stefanović, London 2019. * ''(Austro-)German Words in Serbian.'' With Danijela Stefanović. Beograd 2014. * ''Hieroglyphische Inschriften aus der ägyptischen Spätzeit.'' Mainz, 2013. *''Stelen, Inschriftsteine und Reliefs aus der Zeit der 18. Dynastie''. With Michaela Hüttner. Mainz 1999. *''Stelen des Mittleren Reiches einschließlich der I. und II. Zwischenzeit''. Part II. With Irmgard Hein. Mainz 1993. *''Stelen des Mittleren Reiches einschließlich der I. und II. Zwischenzeit''. Part I. With Irmgard Hein. Mainz, 1989. * ''Urkunden der 18. Dynastie. Indices zu den Heften 1–22.'' With Monika Hasitzka. Berlin 1988. *'' Neuägyptische Studien. Die Partikel ir - Das Tempussystem''. Vienna, 1976. *''Die negativen Konstruktionen im

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- und Mittelägyptischen''. Berlin, 1968. *'' Koptische Urkunden III. Ägyptische Urkunden aus den Staatlichen Museen Berlin''. Berlin, 1968. * ''

Vienna.'' With Monika Randl. Utrecht 2002. (CD-ROM; Egyptian Treasures in Europe vol. 5.) *''Das Kunsthistorische Museum in Wien: Die Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung''. Mainz, 1994. * ''Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung des Kunsthistorischen Museums.'' Magazinpresse, München 1987. * ''Ägyptische Kunst in Wien.'' Wien 1980.

Further publications

Several

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

and

exhibition catalogue There are two types of exhibition catalogue (or exhibition catalog): 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 Catalogues for ...

s, and presentations of the Vienna Egyptian collection and its history. More than 200 articles on Egyptological and Coptological issues,

Afro-Asiatic languages The Afroasiatic languages (also known as Afro-Asiatic, Afrasian, Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic) are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of th ...

Old Nubian Old Nubian (also called Middle Nubian or Old Nobiin) is an extinct Nubian language, attested in writing from the 8th to the 15th century AD. It is ancestral to modern-day Nobiin and closely related to Dongolawi and Kenzi. It was used through ...

, etc.; some sixty book reviews.

Studies in Honour of Helmut Satzinger

*Roman Gundacker—Julia Budka—Gabriele Pieke (eds.): ''Florilegium Aegyptiacum.'' Eine wissenschaftliche Blütenlese von Schülern und Freunden für Helmut Satzinger zum 75. Geburtstag (= Göttinger Miszellen, Beiheft 14), Wien 2013. *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.

External links

*http://homepage.univie.ac.at/helmut.satzinger/Wurzelverzeichnis/indEngl.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Satzinger, Helmut 1938 births Austrian Egyptologists Coptologists Writers from Linz Living people