Jan Assmann#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2230 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2004 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zaw/aegy/institut/assmann_cv.html |
Jan Assmann passed away February 19, 2024.
Positions Held
- Since 2003 Honorary Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Constance
- 1976 - 2003 Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg
- 1971 Habilitation
Fields of Scholarship
- Judaism
- Origins of monotheism
- Egyptian religion
- Ancient Egypt
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Max Planck Award for Research
- 1998 German Historians’ Prize
- 1998 Honorary Doctorate in Theology from the Theology Faculty, Munster
- 2004 Soc.Sc.D. (honoris causa), Yale University
- 2005 Ph.D. (honoris causa), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2006 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, First Class
- 2006 Alfried Krupp Prize for Scholarship
- 2011 Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste
