Rainer Hannig

Rainer Hannig (19 August 1952 – 29 January 2022) was a German Egyptologist.

Biography Hannig studied Egyptology, lexicography, and linguistics and earned a master's degree from the University of Tübingen in 1979. From 1984 to 1987, he was a guest professor in Egyptology at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations and the Northeast Normal University. From 1998 to 2000, he worked at the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim. During this time, he led excursions to Egypt with the German Research Foundation. He discovered the tomb of Iri-en-achti, a king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt.

Hannig died on 29 January 2022, at the age of 69.

Publications Pseudopartizip und sDm.n=f. Der Kernbereich des mittelägyptischen Verbalsystems (1991) Die Sprache der Pharaonen. Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch (1995) Wortschatz der Pharaonen in Sachgruppen. Kulturhandbuch Ägyptens (1999) Altes Reich und Erste Zwischenzeit (2003) Mittleres Reich und Zweite Zwischenzeit (2006) Zur Paläographie der Särge aus Assiut (2006)