Fritz Hintze

Fritz Hintze
Born(1915-04-18)April 18, 1915
Berlin, Germany
DiedMarch 30, 1993(1993-03-30) (aged 77)
Berlin, Germany
Alma materHumboldt University
SpouseUrsula Hintze
Scientific career
InstitutionsHumboldt University

Fritz Hintze (April 18, 1915 – March 30, 1993) was an Egyptologist, Nubiologist, and German archaeologist.[1] He is the founder of Sudanese archaeology in Germany.

Hintze studied at Humboldt University of Berlin under Hermann Grapow and received his doctorate in 1944.

In 1957, he founded the Institute of Egyptology at Humboldt University. He retired in 1980.

Hintze's main area of research was the study of meriotic culture in Nubia. He undertook field research projects at Butana (1957–58) and Musawwarat es-Sufra (1960–1970).[2][3] Among his students were a generation of Egyptologists, many of whom specialize in the Sudan of antiquity, including Erika Endesfelder, Liselotte Honigmann-zinserling, Irene Shirun-Grumach, Karl-Heinz Priese, Walter-Friedrich Reineke and Steffen Wenig.

His wife was German archaeologist Ursula Hintze. Hintze was killed on March 30, 1993, by a car accident.[4]

  1. ^ "Musawwarat 1. field diary 19.1.-7.4.1960, kept by Fritz Hintze and others. | Humboldt Forum Collections Online". sammlungenonline.humboldtforum.org. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  2. ^ Mirghani, Jaffar (2005). "Musawwarat in Focus: A New Perspective". Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente. 60 (3/4): 533–543. ISSN 0001-9747. JSTOR 40761820. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  3. ^ Rilly, Claude (2022). "Graffiti for Gods and Kings. The Meroitic secondary inscriptions of Musawwarat es-Sufra: a preliminary study". Der Antike Sudan (33): 7–18. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  4. ^ Edwards, David N. (1999). Musawwarat Es Sufra: A meroitic pottery workshop at Musawwarat es Sufra : preliminary report on the excavations 1997 in courtyard 224 of the great enclosure. III. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-04134-8. Retrieved 13 April 2024.