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Helmut Satzinger | |
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| Born | January 21, 1938 |
Helmut Satzinger (born January 21, 1938, in Linz) is an Austrian Egyptologist and Coptologist. 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 the University of Vienna. Since then, he has been regularly giving courses, mainly in Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, and Egyptian Epigraphy, Art, and Museology, at the University of Vienna, but also at the University of Hamburg (1980), LMU Munich (1993), at Cairo University (2000), and at the University of Belgrade (2004, 2005). He supervised more than forty Egyptological and Coptological theses (PhD and MA). Satzinger retired from his curatorial work in 2003.
Until 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.
