Jan Assmann, born1938, is a retired Egyptologist, religious scholar and cultural historian. From 1976 to 2003 he held the chair of Egyptology at Heidelberg University and directed the excavations at Luxor (Upper Egypt) starting in 1978. Since 2005 he has been an honorary professor of general cultural studies and religious theory at the University of Constance, as well as an honorary doctor of various universities.
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