Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache (Dictionary of the Egyptian Language), abbreviated Wb in bibliographic references,

headwords in five main volumes, two secondary volumes, and five volumes of primary source references.[citation needed] It is therefore the largest and most complete printed dictionary of Ancient Egyptian in existence.[2]

Begun in 1897 as a research project at the

Altägyptisches Wörterbuch (Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian), a comprehensive update of the original and an online digitization project being conducted under the auspices of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 1993.[3]

History

The project was launched in 1897 by Adolf Erman during the reign of Wilhelm II and supported with 120,000 Reichsmark. The project was undertaken at scientific Academies in Berlin, Göttingen, Leipzig and Munich elected by a Commission. Although cooperative international work was interrupted by World War I, the number of archived source texts had grown to 1,374,806 by 1918. Erman and Grapow published an intermediate result of the work as the "Egyptian Concise Dictionary" in 1921. In 1926 the five main volumes, financed by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and autographed by the Danish Egyptologist Wolja Erichsen, were published.

References

  1. ^ Bibliographic Abbreviations in Egyptology – Compiled for the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum (EEF) version 38, March 2011 (in English) retrieved 25-June-2012.
  2. ISBN 978-0521449847
    . p 11.
  3. ^ The Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian at the BBAW

Literature

  • Adolf Erman, Hermann Grapow (ed.): Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1926–1961.
  • Adolf Erman, Hermann Grapow: Das Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache. Zur Geschichte eines großen wissenschaftlichen Unternehmens der Akademie. Berlin 1953.
  • Wolfgang Kosack: Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache. Herausgegeben von Adolf Erman und Hermann Grapow. Erweitert, korrigiert und ergänzt von Wolfgang Kosack. 5 Bände, 5644 Seiten. Christoph Brunner, Nunningen 2018,
    ISBN 978-3-906206-40-0
    .

External links
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wörterbuch_der_ägyptischen_Sprache&oldid=1217580412"