Prof. Dr. Ludwig D. Morenz

Ludwig Morenz focuses on different forms of dependency in Pharaonic history and its expression in archaeological and textual material. This research studies the relationship between the Egyptian economic expeditions organized by the Pharaonic state and the local Canaanites on various levels. Contrary to earlier assumptions, it has become obvious that the Canaanite Bedouins didn’t only work as “slaves or uneducated workers”, but instead had various levels of dependency and agency. We are able to analyze continuity and changes concerning these complex relationships over more than a millennium. Ludwig Morenz also examines other research areas, tackling questions of dependency within Pharaonic society from the field of economy to religion.

13 monographs, 4 edited volumes, more than 100 articles and ca. 100 invited talks and presentations; 4 completed and 7 ongoing doctorates, 7 Magister, 8 M.A. and 15 B.A. theses as supervisor/first reviewer; reviewer of international Ph.D.s (Leiden, Liverpool, Rhodos).

2001
Habilitation and Venia legend in Egyptology, University of Tübingen, Germany

1990–1994
Ph.D. in Egyptology, Coptology, Ancient Oriental and Religious History, University of Leipzig, Germany

1985–1990
Diploma Studies in Oriental Archaeology, University of Halle, Germany

since 2009
Professor for Egyptology at the University of Bonn and Director of the Egyptian Museum Bonn, Germany

2006–2007
Senior Fellow, International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna, Austria

2006
Guest researcher at University of Uppsala, Sweden

2002–2009
Heisenberg fellowship (German Research Foundation), Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship, Research Library of Gotha

1998–2001
Habilitation scholarship (German Research Foundation)

1995–1997
Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Barns Junior Research Fellow, Queen's College, Oxford, UK

since 2016
Member of the Geram Archaeological Institute

since 2013
Member of the DFG Research Training Group 1878 Archeology of Pre-Modern Economies

since 2011
Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project

2008
Member of the International Organizing Committee of the Xth International Congress of Egyptologists in Rhodes

Member of VARI = Association of Archaeological Institutions of Cologne/Bonn Project leader in the DFG Collaborative Research Center "'Macht' and 'Herrschaft': Premodern Configurations in a Transcultural Perspective"

since 2014
Founder and editor of "Studia Sinaitica" and of "Studia Euphratica"

since 2012
Founder and editor of "Bonner Ägyptologische Beiträge"

since 2012
Founder and Co-editor of "THOT: Beiträge zur historischen Epistemologie und Medienarchäologie"

since 2011

• Exhibitions in the Egyptian Museum Bonn, approx. three special exhibitions every year

• Special exhibition on the origin of alphabetic writing in the Egyptian National Museum, Cairo

• Co-editor of the "Journal of Egyptian History"

 
Current excavation projects in Egypt:
since 2015
Elite Necropolisof the Qubbet el Hawa

since 2012
Serabit el-Chadim: Hathor temple: landscape archaeology, epigraphy and iconography; the first excavation campaign took place in September 2012

• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• the Gerda Henkel Foundation
• the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
• the Minerva-Genther Foundation
• the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

The total sum of approximately € 1 million.