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    Johann Christoph "Jan" Assmann (7 July 1938 – 19 February 2024) was a German Egyptologist, cultural historian, and religion scholar. Assmann studied Egyptology...
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    Egyptology in Tübingen because her husband Jan Assmann had become a professor of Egyptology in Heidelberg. In 1992 Assmann completed her habilitation in Heidelberg...
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  • statesman and translator Jan Assmann (1938–2024), German Egyptologist Katja Aßmann (born 1971), German art historian Peter Assmann (born 1963), Austrian...
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  • Supreme Being. Jan Assmann ascribed the doctrine to ancient Egyptian theology as well as various Greek philosophies. According to Assmann, "Malesherbes...
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  • lie behind the Osarseph story. An influential study by Egyptologist Jan Assmann has suggested that no single historical incident or person lies behind...
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  • highland settlers came, one way or another, from Egypt." Egyptologist Jan Assmann suggests that the Exodus narrative combines, among other things, the...
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    traditions in relation to Roman models, particularly Imperial cult. Jan Assmann considers the polytheistic approach to internationalizing gods as a form...
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    and Seqenenre", Papyrus Sallier I, 1.2–3 (British Museum No. 10185) Jan Assmann argues that because the ancient Egyptians could never conceive of a "lonely"...
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  • Egypt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). ISBN 978-0-19-521952-4 Jan Assmann: Ma'at. Gerechtigkeit und Unsterblichkeit im Alten Ägypten (= Beck'sche...
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    Steinmeier) 2019 – Sebastião Salgado (Wim Wenders) 2018 – Aleida and Jan Assmann (Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht) 2017 – Margaret Atwood (Eva Menasse) 2016 – Carolin...
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