Gertrud Thausing
{{short description|Austrian Egyptologist}}
{{Infobox academic
| honorific_suffix =
| name = Gertrud Thausing
| birth_name = Gertrud Maria Elisa Thausing
| birth_place = Vienna, Austria
| birth_date = 29 December 1905
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|05|04|1905|12|29|df=y}}
| alma_mater = University of Vienna
| titles = Head of the Institute for Egyptology and African Studies at the University of Vienna (1954-1977)
}}
Gertrud Maria Elisa Thausing (29 December 1905 – 4 May 1997) was an Austrian Egyptologist, and the head of the Institute for Egyptology and African Studies at the University of Vienna from 1954 to 1977.
Biography
Gertrud Maria Elisa Thausing was born on 29 December 1905 in Vienna. She studied Egyptology at the University of Vienna, and collaborated with prominent Egyptologists Hermann Junker and Wilhelm Czermak.{{Cite web |last=Satzinger |first=Helmut |date= |title=GERTRUD THAUSING (1905-1997) |url=https://homepage.univie.ac.at/helmut.satzinger/Texte/Thausing%20Nekrolog.pdf |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |website=Universitat Wien}} She is most well known for her work on African linguistics, including the study of Egyptian, Coptic and Nubian languages.{{Cite book|last1=Backes|first1=Burkhard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-lICgFplIssC&q=gertrud+thausing&pg=PA2|title=Totenbuch-Forschungen: Gesammelte Beiträge Des 2. Internationalen Totenbuch-Symposiums, Bonn, 25. Bis 29. September 2005|last2=Munro|first2=Irmtraut|last3=Stöhr|first3=Simone|date=2006|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-05470-6|language=en}} Her work on Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology has also been widely cited.{{Cite book|last=Greenbaum|first=Dorian Gieseler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnLsCgAAQBAJ&q=gertrud+thausing&pg=PA99|title=The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence|date=2015-11-13|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-30621-9|location=|pages=99|language=en}} From 1953 to 1977, she was the head of the Institute for Egyptology and African Studies at the University of Vienna.{{Cite book|last=FUSL - Autre Bruffaerts, Jean-Michel|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1104527745|title=Compte-rendu de : Morris L. Bierbrier, Who Was Who in Egyptology. 4th revised edition|date=2014|publisher=Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten|oclc=1104527745}}
She published her autobiography Tarudet. Ein Leben für die Ägyptologie in 1989. She died on 4 May 1997, at the age of 92.
Selected bibliography
- Zwischen den beiden Ewigkeiten: Festschrift Gertrud Thausing (1994) {{OCLC|473373367}}
- Tarudet - Ein Leben für die Ägyptologie (1989) {{ISBN|3-201-01456-7|}}
- Sein und Werden. Versuch einer Ganzheitsschau der Religion des Pharaonenreiches (1971) {{OCLC|781598979}}
- Nofretari. Eine Dokumentation der Wandgemälde ihres Grabes (1971) {{OCLC|1049535673}}
- Das große ägyptische Totenbuch (Papyrus Reinisch) der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (1969) {{OCLC|602543442}}
- Der Auferstehungsgedanke in ägyptischen religiösen Texten (1943) {{OCLC|4098291}}
References
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External links
- [https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=118905236 Works by and about Gertrud Thausing] in the German National Library
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Category:Austrian Egyptologists
Category:University of Vienna alumni
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