WÖRTERBUCH DER AEGYPTISCHEN SPRACHE IM AUFTRAGE DER DEUTSCHEN AKADEMIEN/5 volume

Description: The Dictionary of the Egyptian Language ( Wb ) is a comprehensive dictionary of Old , Middle and New Egyptian as well as hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Greco-Roman period , edited by Adolf Erman and Hermann Grapow and published from 1897 to 1961 mainly at the then Prussian Academy of Sciences was created in Berlin, which is why it is also called the “Berlin Dictionary”. With around 16,000 words and five main volumes, two subsidiary volumes and five volumes of references, it is the most complete printed dictionary of Egyptian to date.The project was launched in 1897 by Adolf Erman and supported by Wilhelm II with 120,000 Reichsmarks . The project was led by a commission elected by the academies in Berlin, Göttingen, Leipzig and Munich. In order to record the words and their references, the Egyptian texts were systematically scattered from 1898 onwards. The texts, which had not yet been published or only published insufficiently, had to be recorded in Egypt and European museums from 1898 to 1914 and then disposed of. The inscriptions from Lower Nubia that were threatened by the first Aswan Dam were also saved. In 1906 Adolf Erman and Kurt Sethe began drafting the manuscript. It became apparent that the intended concept required far too many pages, which is why reference points within the main volumes had to be omitted. During the First World War the distribution had to be stopped, but by 1918 the number of pieces of paper had grown to 1,374,806. In 1921, Erman and Grapow published an Egyptian Concise Dictionary as an interim result of their work . In 1926, work began on the five main volumes, which, financed by John D. Rockefeller II , were autographed by the Danish Egyptologist Wolja Erichsen and published from 1926 to 1931 by the Leipzig publisher JC Hinrichs. The reference point volumes were then drawn up. Their first volume appeared in 1935, the second in 1940, then work was completely interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War from 1943 to 1945. The remaining three volumes of references were finally presented in 1951 and 1953. In 1950, Volume VI also appeared with a German-Egyptian dictionary (alphabetical and in subject groups) as well as a list of Semitic, Greek and Coptic words in the main volumes; Volume VII followed in 1961 with a declining dictionary. The work was thus completed after 64 years. However, since the end of the dispersal, the number of known texts has increased significantly and even the texts known at the time could not be fully utilized, a new edition became more and more urgent over time. On the one hand, it was presented in the form of the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, which is accessible online , as a large-scale cooperation project between several academies of sciences, and on the other hand, the printed Hannig-Lexica , which appeared in the Cultural History of the Ancient World series from 1995 to 2003 , can be viewed as a new edition of the old dictionary. Correspondence with Adolf Erman, Kurt Sethe and Hermann Grapow related to the dictionary is in the holdings of JC Hinrichs Verlag, Leipzig [1] in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives.(Wikipedia)

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