Ludwig David Morenz
Ludwig David Morenz (born 4 April 1965) is German professor in Egyptology at the University of Bonn. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig and Habilitation from the University of Tübingen. His fields of research include the origins of Egyptian writing, Ancient Egyptian literature, ancient Egyptian society, and Renaissance and Baroque-era European studies on ancient Egypt. Education. In 1985 he got a Diploma in Oriental Archeology at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. In 1990 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig in Egyptology and Coptology. Career. In 2002 he received a  Heisenberg scholarship of the DFG (German Research Foundation). In 2005 he got Herzog Ernst Fellowship at the Gotha Research Library, where he worked on Case Study on the Egyptian Reception. In 2006 he was a guest Scientist at Uppsala Universitet. In 2006 - 2007 he was a Senior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. In 2009 he got a position as a professor of Egyptology at the University of Bonn.