Manfred Bietak

Manfred Bietak (born on October 6th, 1940 with Vienna) is a Austrian archeologist . He is professor of Egyptology to the Université of Vienna and director of the Austrian archaeological Institut in Cairo ( Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Kairo ). In 2004 he is professor with Harvard.

He studied archeology in Université of Vienna and took share of 1961 to 1965 in a preventive campaign of UNESCO to Sayala in Nubie.

Bietak is more known as director of the Austrian excavations on two sites: that of the Delta of the Nile to Such el-Dab' has, site of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksôs, and that, close, of pi-Ramsès, capital of the Egypt during.

It is:

Member of the Austrian Academy off Science ,
Member corresponding of the British Academy ,
Member corresponding abroad of the Royal Swedish Academy off Letters ,
Regular member of the Institute of Egypt,
Member of the German Archaeological Institute ,
honorary Member of the archaeological Institute of America.

He is the author or joint author of several school works, articles for the Egyptological newspaper Ägypten und Levante , of fourteen other works and two hundred articles in scientific publications.

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