Jochem Kahl

Jochem Kahl
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Ravensburg, Germany
EducationUniversity of Tübingen, University of Münster, University of Vienna
OccupationEgyptologist
EmployerFree University of Berlin
OrganizationsGerman Archaeological Institute
Known forExcavations at Assiut, research on Egyptian hieroglyphs
Notable workThe System of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing in the 0th – 3rd Dynasty, Siut - Thebes, Ancient Asyut
TitleProfessor

Jochem Kahl (born 1961) is a German Egyptologist.[1]

A native of Ravensburg, Kahl studied undergraduate history and Greek at the University of Tübingen from 1983 to 1984 and then Egyptology, Classical Archeology and Pre- and Early History at Münster, Tübingen and Vienna between 1984 and 1990. Kahl undertook his doctorate with the study "The System of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing in the 0th – 3rd Dynasty" between 1992 and 1998.

From 1998 to 2004, he was a university lecturer at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptology at the University of Münster. In 2004, he was given a professorship at the University of Münster and in 2006 a professorship at University of Mainz. He is currently at Free University of Berlin.[2]

He leads the excavations at Assiut[3] and the surrounding area in Central Egypt and has been a professor at the Free University of Berlin since October 2008. Kahl is a member of the German Archaeological Institute.

  1. ^ Kürschner's German Scholarly Calendar 2001 . Saur, 2001, ISBN 9783598236037 , p. 1464.
  2. ^ Univ.-Prof. dr Jochem Kahl. page
  3. ^ The Asyut Project Archived 2014-05-02 at the Wayback Machine website.