Johannes Dümichen


Johannes Dümichen was a German Egyptologist.

Biography

Dümichen was born near Glogau. He studied philology and theology in Berlin and Breslau. Subsequently he became a pupil of Karl Lepsius and Heinrich Brugsch, and devoted himself to the study of Egyptian inscriptions. He travelled widely in Egypt, and published his results in a number of important books.
He was tasked by the Prussian government to explore the Nile Valley in 1862 and 1868. On the first expedition, along with investigations of the Nile Valley in Egypt, he also conducted extensive research in Nubia and the Sudan. In 1869 he accompanied the Prussian Crown Prince to Egypt on the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal. On his fourth trip to Egypt, he studied the inscriptions of the largest private tomb in the Theban Necropolis.
In 1872 he was chosen professor of Egyptology at Strasbourg, where a new chair was created to compete with the famous chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France.

Works

The value of his work consists not only in the stores of material which he collected, but also in the success with which he dealt with many of the problems raised by the inscriptions. Among his works are:
The last work, originally intended to comprise six volumes, was left unfinished at Dümichen's death. Part 3 was published after his death by Wilhelm Spiegelberg.