Manfred Bietak
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Manfred Bietak (b. 6 October 1940, Vienna) is an Austrian archaeologist. He is the current Professor of Egyptology at the University of Vienna and Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo. In 2004, he was a visiting professor at Harvard.

Bietak is best known as the director of the Austrian excavations at two sites in the Nile delta: Tell el-Daba'a, which was the location of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos period; and Piramesse, which was the capital of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.

Bietak studied archeology at University of Vienna, obtaining his Dr. phil. in 1964. In 1961-1964, he took part in the conservation expedition of UNESCO at Sayala in Nubia, and he also supervised excavations there; in 1965 he was the director of the expedition. During 1966-1972, he was the Scientific Secretary at the Cultural Section of the Austrian Embassy in Cairo. In 1973, he founded the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo; he has been the director of the institute since then. Since 1986, he has also been the Chairman of the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Since 1999 he is also the First Speaker of the "Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C. — SCIEM 2000" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Bietak has been elected to several scholarly institutions: Foreign Honorary Member of the Archaeological Institute of America; Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy; Member of German Archaeological Institute; Membre titulaire de l'Institut d'Égypte; Foreign Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is also a member of the following: Council of the International Union of Egyptologists; Scientific Committee of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East; Visiting Committee of the Egyptian Department of the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Additionally, he has supervised or reviewed Ph.D. and Masters theses at the universities of Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Göttingen, Hamburg, Helwan, Leiden, London, and Zagazig.

In 2006, there was a three-volume festschrift published in his honour. The festschrift includes a list of works that Bietak authored or co-authored up to 2006: 21 monographs, 164 research articles, and 17 review articles. Bietak has also edited or co-edited 8 periodicals, including the Egyptological journal Egypt and the Levant.

References

Czerny E., Hein I., Hunger H., Melman D., Schwab A. (editors), Timelines: Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 149), 3 volumes (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Peeters, 2006). ISBN 978-90-429-1730-9 (This contains a bibliography that is the primary source for most of this Wikipedia article.)

External links

• Austrian Archaeological Institute: Cairo Branch
• Manfred Bietak at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• SCIEM 2000  Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C.

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