Kim Ryholt

Short presentation

As professor of Egyptology, my research interests span

• ancient Egyptian political and social history
• nationalism and identity formation
• literature and libraries
• administration and archives
• and historiography.

I studied at the University of Copenhagen, Freie Universität in Berlin, and Julius-Maximilians Universität in Würzburg, and have been employed by the University of Copenhagen since 1994.

I am responsible for the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection and the associated international research project since 1999, and much of my research, mainly funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, is related to the invaluable collection of ancient manuscripts in the collection, in particular the remains of the only extant temple library from ancient Egypt. The library pertains to the temple of Soknebtunis at the site at Tebtunis where I participate in the ongoing Franco-Italian excavations, and I am also reponsible for the international publication programme relating to the numerous demotic papyri.

From 2008 to 2013, I was PI/director of the Center for Canon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Literate Societies (funded by the University of Copenhagen Programme of Excellence), and from 2013 to 2017 I was CoPI/member of the project management team of CoNeXT: Fertilizing the ground and harvesting the full potential of the new neutron and X-ray research infrastructures close to Copenhagen (funded by the University of Copenhagen Excellence Programme for Interdisciplinary Research; PI Prof. Sine Larsen) and responsible for the subproject Ancient Ink as Technology.

I am currently enjoying a one-year research leave, sponsored by the Carlsberg Foundation's Semper Ardens initiative, with a project entitled Trauma, Imitatio, and the Invention of History.

Monographs:

• K. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 B.C. CNI Publications 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997. xiv + 463 pages.
• K. Ryholt, The Carlsberg Papyri 4: The Story of Petese son of Petetum, and Seventy Other Good and Bad Stories. CNI Publications 23. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1999. xx + 116 pages, 12 plates.
• K. Ryholt, The Carlsberg Papyri 6: The Petese Stories II. CNI Publications 29. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006. xiv + 210 pages, 22 plates.
• K. Ryholt, The Carlsberg Papyri 10: Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library. CNI Publications 35. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. xvi + 230 pages, 23 plates.
• T. Christiansen, K. Ryholt, The Carlsberg Papyri 13: Catalogue of Egyptian Funerary Papyri in Danish Collections. CNI Publications 41. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2016. viii + 40 pages, 106 plates.
• F. Hagen, K. Ryholt, The Antiquities Trade in Egypt, 1880s-1930s: The H. O. Lange Papers. Scientia Danica, Series H, Humanistica, 4 vol. 8. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2016. 335 pages, 169 illustrations.

Other publications: see Curis

Teaching

Language classes:

• Middle Egyptian (BA)
• Late Egyptian (MA)
• Demotic (MA)
• Ptolemaic (MA)
• Coptic (MA)

History and culture classes:

• Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Culture (BA)
• Egyptian history (BA, MA)
• Egyptian literature (BA, MA)
• Egyptian documentary texts (MA)
• Egyptian religion (BA, MA)
• Egyptian art (BA, MA)