Franz Joseph Lauth
German Egyptologist (1822-1895)
Franz Joseph Lauth (18 February 1822, Landau, Germany – 11 February 1895, Munich), was a German Egyptologist.
Career
From 1842 to 1845, he studied classical philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1849, he became a teacher at the Wilhelmsgymnasium (Munich).
From 1863 to 1865 he traveled in Egypt (Part of the Ottoman Empire).
In 1865 he was appointed professor at the Maximilians Gymnasium and received the Great Golden Medal from Maximilian II of Bavaria, for his chronological studies of the zodiac circle of Dendera and Manetho.
From this recognition he was able to gain access to the collections at the court and library of king Ludwig I of Bavaria and study the royal collection of Egyptian artifacts held within. He later studied similar collections in Vienna, Trieste, Rome, Florence, Paris, London and Leiden (focusing especially on the papyri). He made major contributions to the newly founded Journal of Egyptian Language and Antiquities. In 1869, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Egyptology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and curator of the Egyptian collections.
Some time later, he was heavily criticized for the style of his writings.
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