Ägyptologen im Dritten Reich

Biographische Notizen anhand der sogenannten „Steindorff-Liste“

Bibliographic Data

ID12955855
AuthorsThomas Schneider (0000-0001-6853-7128, University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume5
Issue1-2
Pages120-247
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Egyptian History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1874-1657 • E-ISSN: 1874-1665
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/187416612x632526
OpenAlexW1981596552
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

The history of Egyptology in the Third Reich has never been the subject of academic analysis. This article gives a detailed overview of the biographies of Egyptologists in National Socialist Germany and their later careers after the Second World War. It scrutinizes their attitude towards the ideology of the Third Reich and their involvement in the political and intellectual Gleichschaltung of German Higher Education, as well as the impact National Socialism had on the discourse within the discipline. A letter written in 1946 by Georg Steindorff, one of the emigrated German Egyptologists, to John Wilson, Professor at the Oriental Institute Chicago, which incriminated former colleagues and exonerated others, is first published here and used as a framework for the debate

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