Luise Klebs

Luise Klebs (13 June 1865 – 24 May 1931) was a German Egyptologist best known for a three-volume, scene-indexed corpus of ancient Egyptian reliefs and wall paintings covering the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Compiled largely at the Aegyptologisches Institut of the University of Heidelberg, her handbooks became widely used reference tools for comparative study of iconography, while the New Kingdom volume appeared posthumously in 1934.

Life Klebs was born in Tübingen as Luise Charlotte Therese von Sigwart, daughter of the philosopher and logician Christoph von Sigwart. She married the botanist Georg Albrecht Klebs in Tübingen on 20 March 1888 and subsequently followed his appointments to Basel, Halle and (from 1907) Heidelberg. Her thematic arrangement is still referenced in modern scholarship dealing with daily-life scenes and craft processes.

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