Design: B. Nennstiel, TOPOI, 2013
Foto: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
Professor Sergei Ignatov studied Egyptology in St. Petersburg and later founded the Bulgarian Institute of Egyptology at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia. He was formerly Rector of the New Bulgarian University and from November 2009 to January 2013 he was Minister of Education, Youth and Science for the Republic of Bulgaria. The lecture deals with the «Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor», a literary work from the Middle Kingdom, the archetype of the tales of «The Odyssey». As an introduction to his lecture S. Ignatov dealt with a short story of the Russian School of Egyptology. The lecture itself offered new insights in the story of the «Shipwrecked Sailor» – the main research topic of the speaker for many years – and the personal view of Sergei Ignatov on the Egyptian world.
Strahil V. Panayotov
The BabMed Project has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC Grant agreement no. 323596.
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