Education
University of Tübingen.
anthropologist archaeologist egyptologist lexicographer linguist university professor
University of Tübingen.
He was a student of Adolf Erman. Sethe collected numerous texts from Egypt during his visits there and edited the Urkunden des ægyptischen Altertums which is a standard catalogue of Ancient Egyptian literature and text. Among Sethe"s many contributions to Egyptology, two are singled out by Gardiner (p 433): "..the pronunciation of Middle Egyptian.
The chief authorities to be consulted are Sethe"s great work on the Egyptian verb, and a much later brilliant article entitled Die Vokalisation des Ägyptischen in Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft"" (1923).
Among Sethe"s students were Hans Jakob Polotsky and Alan Gardiner. Sethe"s anthology, Aegyptische Lesestuecke, is still doing sterling service to the beginners in the study of the language.
Sethe also published a comprehensive collection of Egyptian epigraphy, which he called Urkunden der Aegyptologie.
Prussian Academy of Sciences. German Archaeological Institute. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Göttingen Academy of Sciences.