Gertrud Thausing

Gertrud Maria Elisa Thausing (29 December 1905 – 4 May 1997) was an Austrian Egyptologist, and the head of the Institute for Egyptology and African Studies at the University of Vienna from 1954 to 1977.

Biography Gertrud Maria Elisa Thausing was born on 29 December 1905 in Vienna. She studied Egyptology at the University of Vienna, and collaborated with prominent Egyptologists Hermann Junker and Wilhelm Czermak. She is most well known for her work on African linguistics, including the study of Egyptian, Coptic and Nubian languages. Her work on Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology has also been widely cited. From 1953 to 1977, she was the head of the Institute for Egyptology and African Studies at the University of Vienna.

She published her autobiography Tarudet. Ein Leben für die Ägyptologie in 1989. She died on 4 May 1997, at the age of 92.

Selected bibliography

Zwischen den beiden Ewigkeiten: Festschrift Gertrud Thausing (1994) Tarudet - Ein Leben für die Ägyptologie (1989) Sein und Werden. Versuch einer Ganzheitsschau der Religion des Pharaonenreiches (1971) Nofretari. Eine Dokumentation der Wandgemälde ihres Grabes (1971) Das große ägyptische Totenbuch (Papyrus Reinisch) der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (1969) Der Auferstehungsgedanke in ägyptischen religiösen Texten (1943)