Heike Behlmer

Prof. Dr. Heike Behlmer is a faculty member at the University of Göttingen in the Department of Egyptology and Coptic Studies. Her research focuses on Egyptian monasticism, Coptic literature, gender studies, digital Coptic, and the history of Egyptology.

• Director of research projects like the Digital Complete Edition and Translation of the Coptic-Sahidic Old Testament
• Co-founder of the KELLIA - Coptic Electronic Language and Literature International Alliance
• Editorial roles in journals such as Lingua Aegyptia and Göttingen Oriental Research

Her recent work explores the intersection of digital humanities and Coptic textual analysis, including OCR for Coptic script and linguistically tagged corpora. She investigates how late antique Christian communities interpreted biblical texts and constructed religious identities.

Behlmer’s publications highlight the role of women in Coptic hagiography, gender dynamics in monastic texts, and historical entanglements of Egyptology with colonial and antisemitic networks. Her editorial projects emphasize the preservation and digitization of Coptic manuscripts.