Jochem Kahl


Jochem Kahl is a German Egyptologist.
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 to 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.
He leads the excavations at Assiut 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