The Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde is the oldest professional journal in Egyptology. Since 1863 it has published articles on language, literature, history, law, religion, science, magic, the economy, everyday experience, and the material culture of ancient Egypt as well as the history of Egyptology. The Beihefte present monographs and anthologies on the same broad spectrum of issues covered by the journal.
With her work The Sculpture of the Egyptians , published in 1914, Hedwig Fechheimer (1871-1942) aroused a great deal of attention among the art-interested public; later, she published The Small Sculpture of the Egyptians . This volume reconstructs for the first time Fechheimer's biography, illuminating the experience of a female intellectual and Jew whose life straddled the Wilhelmine and Nazi periods.
S. Peuckert, Berlin.
