Background
Satzinger, Helmut was born on January 21, 1938 in Linz, Austria. Son of Otto and Friederike (Köttl) Satzinger.
Satzinger, Helmut was born on January 21, 1938 in Linz, Austria. Son of Otto and Friederike (Köttl) Satzinger.
He studied Egyptology, Arabic Philology and African Languages at the University of Vienna and, for 1 year, at Cairo University. Immediately after obtaining his PhD degree in 1964, he became commissioned to catalogue and publish Coptic papyri in the West Berlin section of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.
Five years later he was appointed Assistant Curator at the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and in 1977 he became the Head of the Department. In 1978 he was attested the qualification for academic lecturing (habilitation) in Egyptology at Vienna University. Since then, he has been regularly giving courses, mainly in Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, and Egyptian Epigraphy, Art, and Museology, in Vienna, but also in Hamburg (1980), Munich (1993), at Cairo University (2000), and in Belgrade (2004, 2005).
He supervised some thirty egyptological and coptological theses. Satzinger retired from his curatorial work in 2003. Till then, his egyptological research activities were evenly distributed between the museum (catalogues, epigraphic publications, etc) and linguistics and (or) philology, in the main Egyptian and Coptic.
Of late, he intensified his research in Afro-Asiatic language relations. Roman Gundacker—Julia Budka—Gabriele Pieke (eds): Florilegium Aegyptiacum. Eine wissenschaftliche Blütenlese von Schülern und Freunden für Helmut Satzinger zum 75.
Geburtstag (= Göttinger Miszellen, Beiheft 14), Wien 2013. Monika R. M. Hasitzka—Johannes Diethart—Günther Dembski (eds), Das alte Ägypten und seine Nachbarn. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Helmut Satzinger, mit Beiträgen zur Ägyptologie, Koptologie, Nubiologie und Afrikanistik.
Krems, 2003.
Member Icom Committee for Egyptology (representative), International Association Egyptologists.
Married Inge Planinger, September 10, 1941. Children: Katharina, Konstanze, Judith, Stephanie.