Johann Christoph "Jan" Assmann (7 July 1938 – 19 February 2024) was a German Egyptologist, cultural historian, and religion scholar. Assmann studied Egyptology...

Egyptology in Tübingen because her husband Jan Assmann had become a professor of Egyptology in Heidelberg. In 1992 Assmann completed her habilitation in Heidelberg...

statesman and translator Jan Assmann (1938–2024), German Egyptologist Katja Aßmann (born 1971), German art historian Peter Assmann (born 1963), Austrian...

Supreme Being. Jan Assmann ascribed the doctrine to ancient Egyptian theology as well as various Greek philosophies. According to Assmann, "Malesherbes...

lie behind the Osarseph story. An influential study by Egyptologist Jan Assmann has suggested that no single historical incident or person lies behind...

highland settlers came, one way or another, from Egypt." Egyptologist Jan Assmann suggests that the Exodus narrative combines, among other things, the...

traditions in relation to Roman models, particularly Imperial cult. Jan Assmann considers the polytheistic approach to internationalizing gods as a form...

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"...

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...

enemy of Akhet-Aten". Some Egyptologists, such as Jacobus van Dijk and Jan Assmann, believe that Akhenaten's reign and the Amarna period started a gradual...