Jochem Kahl Explained

Jochem Kahl (born 1961) is a German Egyptologist.^[1]

A native of Ravensburg, Kahl studied undergraduate history and Greek at the University of Tübingen from 1983 to 1984 and then Egyptology, Classical Archeology and Pre- and Early History at Münster, Tübingen and Vienna between 1984 and 1990. Kahl undertook his doctorate with the study "The System of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing in the 0th – 3rd Dynasty" between 1992 and 1998.

From 1998 to 2004, he was a university lecturer at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptology at the University of Münster. In 2004, he was given a professorship at the University of Münster and in 2006 a professorship at University of Mainz.He is currently at Free University of Berlin.^[2]

He leads the excavations at Assiut^[3] and the surrounding area in Central Egypt and has been a professor at the Free University of Berlin since October 2008. Kahl is a member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Selected publications

• The system of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing in the 0th to 3rd centuries Dynasty, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1994.^[4]
• with Nicole Kloth, Ursula Zimmermann: The Inscriptions of the 3rd Dynasty. An inventory, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1995 (= Egyptological Treatises, Volume 56).
• Steh auf, gib Horus deine Hand. The narrative of Altenmüller's pyramid text saying, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1996^[5]
• Siut - Thebes.^[6] To appreciate tradition in ancient Egypt, Leiden, Brill 1999
• with Eva-Maria Engel: buried, burned, misunderstood and forgotten - finds from the "Menesgrab", Münster 2001
• Searching for the Rise of the Sun God at the Dawn of Egyptian History . (= Menes, Volume 1) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2007^[7]
• Ancient Asyut. The First Synthesis after 300 Years of Research. (= The Asyut Project, Volume 1) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2007
• Die Zeit selbst lag nun tot darnieder. The city of Assiut and its necropolises according to western travel reports from the 17th to 19th centuries: construction, destruction and reconstruction. (= The Asyut Project, Volume 5) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2013, .
• The Tomb of the Dogs at Asyut: Faunal Remains and Other Selected Objects. With contributions by Jochem Kahl and Günter Vittmann ^[8]
• The Asyut Project: Eleventh Season of Fieldwork (2014) ^[9]
• Ein wiederentdeckter Hundefriedhof in Assiut, 2010.
• The Asyut Project: six seasons of fieldwork 2009^[7]
• The Asyut Project: Fourth Season of Fieldwork (2006)
• The First Intermediate Period Tombs at Asyut Revisited^[10]

External links

• Publications by Jochem Kahl at Propylaeum-DOK

Notes and References

1. Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar 2001 . Saur, 2001,, p. 1464.
2. https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/aegyptologie/personen/Professorinnen-und-Professoren/kahl/index.html Univ.-Prof. dr Jochem Kahl
3. https://www.aegyptologie-altorientalistik.uni-mainz.de/139.php The Asyut Project
4. Jochem Kahl, Das System der ägyptischen Hieroglyphenschrift in der 0.-3. Dynastie (Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994).
5. Jochem Kahl, Books by Jochem Kahl.
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=RIRC1ii_UQgC Siut - Theben
7. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/977701.Jochem_Kahl Books by Jochem Kahl
8. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334290186_The_Tomb_of_the_Dogs_at_Asyut_Faunal_Remains_and_Other_Selected_Objects_With_contributions_by_Jochem_Kahl_and_Gunter_Vittmann_The_Asyut_Project_Band_9 The Tomb of the Dogs at Asyut: Faunal Remains and Other Selected Objects. With contributions by Jochem Kahl and Günter Vittmann (The Asyut Project, Band 9)
9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317166613_The_Asyut_Project_Eleventh_Season_of_Fieldwork_2014_Painted_pottery_from_the_so-called_Hogarth_Depot_in_Tomb_IV_of_the_Asyut_necropolis The Asyut Project: Eleventh Season of Fieldwork (2014) Painted pottery from the so-called "Hogarth Depot" in Tomb IV of the Asyut necropolis
10. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260324164_The_First_Intermediate_Period_Tombs_at_Asyut_Revisited The First Intermediate Period Tombs at Asyut Revisited