Hermann Grapow (1 September 1885 in

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

– 24 August 1967 in

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) was a German

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 professor who published together with

Adolf Erman Johann Peter Adolf Erman (; 31 October 185426 June 1937) was a German Egyptologist and lexicographer. Education Born in Berlin, he was the son of the physicist Georg Adolf Erman and grandson of the physicist Paul Erman and the astronomer Frie ...

the '' Dictionary of the Egyptian Language''. He studied Egyptology at

Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

under Adolf Erman. He later taught and became a professor of Egyptology at Humboldt University. Grapow joined the

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in 1937. After World War II, Grapow continued to work towards the completion of the '' Dictionary of the Egyptian Language''. After its publication, he concentrated on studying ancient Egyptian texts that dealt with medicine. In 1947, together with

Richard Hartmann Richard Hartmann (8 November 1809 – 16 December 1878) was a German engineering manufacturer. Life Hartmann was born on 8 November 1809 in Barr, Bas-Rhin, the son of a tawer (''Weissgerber'', a Tanner (occupation), tanner of white leather) ...

and Diedrich Westermann, he founded the Institute for Oriental Research at the Berlin Academy and was appointed its director in 1956 as the successor to Richard Hartmann.

Works

Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache The ''Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache'' (''Dictionary of the Egyptian Language''), abbreviated ''Wb'' in bibliographic references, is a large German-language dictionary of the Egyptian language published between 1926 and 1961 by Adolf Erman ...

, 7 Bände, Berlin, 1925 ff. *Anatomie und Physiologie, Berlin, 1954 *Kranker, Krankheiten und Arzt : Vom gesunden u. kranken Ägypter, von d. Krankheiten, vom Arzt u. von d. ärztl. Tätigkeit, Berlin 1956 *Die medizinischen Texte in hieroglyphischer Umschreibung autographiert, Berlin, 1958 *Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Drogennamen, Berlin 1959 (gemeinsam mit H. v. Deines) *Wie die alten Ägypter sich anredeten, wie sie sich grüssten und wie sie miteinander sprachen, Berlin 1960

References

1885 births 1967 deaths German Egyptologists German male non-fiction writers Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin People from Rostock Archaeologists from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 20th-century German archaeologists 20th-century German male writers 20th-century German non-fiction writers Nazi Party members Humboldt University of Berlin alumni {{Egyptologist-stub