Georg Möller (1876–1921) was a German
Egyptologist.
He was born in
Venezuela as the son of a German businessman. His family moved to
Hamburg when he was five.
From 1896 he studied at
Humboldt University under
Adolf Erman. He received his doctoral degree in 1900.
In the 1902/3 season he participated in the excavations of the pyramid of
Nyuserre Ini under
Ludwig Borchardt.
He was employed in the German consulate in
Cairo during 1904–1907.
In the 1905/6 season, he excavated at
Abu Sir al Malaq. In 1907/8 he worked at the
Sahure temple,
Abusir. In 1911/12 he excavated at
Deir el-Medina
Deir el-Medina ( arz, دير المدينة), or Dayr al-Madīnah, is an ancient Egyptian workmen's village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th Dynasties of the New Kingdom of ...
.
He returned to Berlin and worked as
Privatdozent
''Privatdozent'' (for men) or ''Privatdozentin'' (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualific ...
at Humboldt University from 1912, promoted to professor in 1916.
In
World War I he served in Asia Minor. He died in 1921 from
Malaria he had contracted there.
His most notable contributions are in the field of
hieratic writing
Hieratic (; grc, ἱερατικά, hieratiká, priestly) is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BC until the ris ...
and Egyptian paleography.
Publications
* ''Ueber die in einem späthieratischen Papyrus des Berliner Museums erhaltenen Pyramidentexte''. Paul, Berlin 1900 (= Dissertation).
* ''Hieratische Paläographie. Die aegyptische Buchschrift in ihrer Entwicklung von der fünften Dynastie bis zur römischen Kaiserzeit''. 3 Bände. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1909. 2. Auflage Hinrichs, Leipzig 1936, Bd. 4 Ergänzungsheft Hinrichs, Leipzig 1936
Digitalisat.
* ''Hieratische Lesestücke für den akademischen Gebrauch''. 3 Bände. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1910–1927.
* ''Die beiden Totenpapyrus Rhind des Museums zu Edinburgh''. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1913
Digitalisat.
* ''Demotische Texte aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin''. Bd. 1: ''Mumienschilder''. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1913.
* ''Ägyptische Mumienporträts'' (= ''Wasmuth's Kunsthefte '' 1). Wasmuth, Berlin 1919.
* ''Die Metallkunst der alten Ägypter''. Wasmuth, Berlin 1924.
* ''Die archaeologischen Ergebnisse des vorgeschichtlichen Gräberfeldes von Abusir el-Meleq nach den Aufzeichnungen Georg Möllers''. Bearbeitet von Alexander Scharff. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1926.
References
*
Georg Steindorff: ''Georg Möller''. In: ''Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde'' 57, 1922, S. 142–14
* Morris L. Bierbrier: ''Who was who in Egyptology.'' 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012, , S. 378–379.
* Susanne Voss: ''Die Geschichte der Abteilung Kairo des DAI im Spannungsfeld deutscher politischer Interessen'' Bd. 1: ''1881–1929'' (= ''Menschen - Kulturen - Traditionen.'' Bd. 8, 1). Leidorf, Rahden Westf. 2013, , S. 68–70. 75. 79. 80. 86. 88. 89. 93. 106. 107. 121. 122. 134. 144. 158. 194. 208.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moller, Georg
German Egyptologists
1876 births
1921 deaths
Archaeologists from Hamburg