Christian Leitz (born 7 August 1960) is a German

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religiou ...

Leitz was born in Borghorst, Westphalia / Germany. He studied Egyptology, Assyriology and

Coptology Coptology is the science of Coptic studies, the study of the Coptic language and Coptic literature.What is C ...

at the universities in

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approxima ...

and

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and received his PhD in Göttingen in 1989. In 1993, he was habilitated at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

where he also held a Heisenberg scholarship from the

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(DFG, German Research Foundation) from 1993 to 1998. From 1999 to 2003, he led the project „Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen“ ("Lexicon of Egyptian Gods and Names of Gods") at the Seminar for Egyptology in Cologne. Since 1 April 2004, he has been a full professor of Egyptology at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-W� ...

. During this time, he taught as a

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at the

École Pratique des Hautes Études École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

in Paris in January/February 2007, at the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

in Paris in November 2009 and at

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

in March/April 2013. Currently, his most important research project is the

Athribis Project The Athribis Project is an archaeological and philological endeavour investigating the ruins of the Pharaonic and later Coptic Christian community of the Ancient Egyptian town of Athribis, near to the modern city of Sohag, Egypt. The aim of the pro ...

. The objective of the project is to fully and thoroughly research, preserve and publish the written records, material technologies and architectural history of the large temple in the ancient city of

Athribis Athribis ( ar, أتريب; Greek: , from the original Egyptian ''Hut-heryib'', cop, Ⲁⲑⲣⲏⲃⲓ) was an ancient city in Lower Egypt. It is located in present-day Tell Atrib, just northeast of Benha on the hill of Kom Sidi Yusuf. The to ...

which was dedicated to the god

Min Min or MIN may refer to: Places * Fujian, also called Mǐn, a province of China ** Min Kingdom (909–945), a state in Fujian * Min County, a county of Dingxi, Gansu province, China * Min River (Fujian) * Min River (Sichuan) * Mineola (Am ...

- Re, his wife

Repyt Repyt, or Repit, was an ancient Egyptian goddess. Typically, she was portrayed as one of the lioness goddesses of Egypt. Her husband was Min. In ancient times there was a town named Hut-Repyt, where her temple was sited. Later, the town was renam ...

and their son, the child-god Kolanthes. The archaeological site is located near the modern

Middle Egypt Middle Egypt () is the section of land between Lower Egypt (the Nile Delta) and Upper Egypt, stretching upstream from Asyut in the south to Memphis in the north. At the time, Ancient Egypt was divided into Lower and Upper Egypt, though Middle ...

ian city of

Sohag Sohag ( , ), also spelled as ''Sawhāj'', ''Suhag'' and ''Suhaj'', is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt. It has been the capital of Sohag Governorate since 1960, before which the capital was Girga and the name of the governorate wa ...

Publications

* ''Studien zur ägyptischen Astronomie''. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1991, (dissertation) * ''Tagewählerei: Das Buch ḥ3t nḥḥ pḥ.wy ḏt und verwandte Texte''. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994, (habilitation thesis) * ''Altägyptische Sternuhren''. Peeters, Leuven 1995, * ''Die Außenwand des Sanktuars in Dendara – Untersuchungen zur Dekorationssystematik''. ''Münchner Ägyptologische Studien, Nr. 50''. Mainz 2001 * ''Quellentexte zur ägyptischen Religion I. Die Tempelinschriften der griechisch-römischen Zeit''. LIT, Münster 2004,

References

External links

*
Professor page on the website of Tübingen University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Leitz, Christian 1960 births Living people German Egyptologists German male non-fiction writers Academic staff of the University of Tübingen People from Steinfurt Archaeologists from North Rhine-Westphalia