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Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Hoffmann is a german Egyptologist who lectures at the Ludwig-Maximilians-
University in Munich, Germany.

He was born 12th of May in 1966 in Moers, near Duisburg. After he graduated from Adolfinum, where
he got his Bachelor Degree, he joined the german military for one year in 1985. In 1986, he started his
educational career with the studies of Egyptology, ancient Latin and German studies at the Julius-
Maximilians-University in Würzburg. He finished his studies in 1991 with a master’s degree in
“Egyptians and Amazons, a revised edition of two identical papers”

He followed up studying linguistic procession of information and texts, where he got his doctor’s degree
in 1994. During this period of time and up to 1996, he took part at the excavation of Elephantine, an
ancient Egyptian Island in Upper Egypt, at DAI in Kairo, where he also received a scientific scholarship
in order to continue working in Kairo. Up to 2002 he worked as scientific assistant at Julius-
Maximilians-University in Würzburg, when he also received his permission for lecturing as professor at
the LMU in Munich, where he joined as professor for Egyptology in 2010.

During his career he earned many prizes, an honourable mention would be his prize from the University
of Würzburg for german science and his pro Academia prze in 2015.

Source:
https://www.aegyptologie.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/hoffmann/cv_hoffmann-
2018.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantine