Thomas Schneider (Egyptologist)
Thomas Schneider | |
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Born | 6 September 1964 Göttingen |
Education | habilitation, Doctor of Philosophy |
Alma mater |
Thomas Schneider (born 6 September 1964, in
Egyptologist
.
Life and career
Thomas Schneider began his studies in 1984 at the
PhD in Egyptology at the University of Basel in 1996. In 1999 he completed his habilitation
at the same university.
Thomas Schneider became the professor of Egyptology at the
Ramses X in the Valley of the Kings) of the University of Basel. Since 2007, he has been an Associate Professor of Egyptology and the Near East at the University of British Columbia
.
Schneider published the works of
Hitler as a savior figure for contemporary Islam
in order to improve Nazi Germany's place in the Arab world.
Area of research
Since 1987, Thomas Schneider has pursued various research interests focussed on Egypt. His main areas of research are the political, cultural and intellectual history of Egypt, the relationship of ancient Egypt to the Near East, North Africa and the
Afro-Asiatic languages
, and the history of Egyptology.
Selected publications
- Schneider, Thomas (1992). "Asiatische Personennamen in ägyptischen Quellen des Neuen Reiches" [Asiatic personal names in Egyptian Sources of the New Kingdom]. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. 114. .
- Ausländer in Ägypten während des Mittleren Reiches und der Hyksoszeit. Teil 1: Die ausländischen Könige [Outlanders in Egypt during the Middle Kingdom and the Hyksos period. Part 1: The Outlander Kings]. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Vol. 42. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 1998. ISBN 3-447-04049-1.
- Schneider, Thomas (1998). Ausländer in Ägypten während des Mittleren Reiches und der Hyksoszeit: Die ausländische Bevölkerung [Outlanders in Egypt during the Middle Kingdom and the Hyksos period. Part 2: The Outlander Populations]. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Vol. 42. ISBN 9780344749063.
- Schneider, Thomas; Raulwing, Peter (8 November 2012). "Ägyptologen im Dritten Reich. Biographische Notizen anhand der sogenannten "Steindorff-Liste"." [Egyptologists in the Third Reich. Biographical Notices based on the So-Called "Steindorff List"]. Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich: Ideology, Scholarship, and Individual Biographies. Leiden: Brill. pp. 120–247. ISBN 978-90-04-24329-3.
External links
- Literature by and about Thomas Schneider in the German National Library catalogue
- Personal website of Thomas Schneider at the University of British Columbia