Heike Sternberg-el Hotabi

apl. Prof. Dr. Heike Sternberg-el Hotabi has served as Associate Professor (apl. Prof.) in the Department of Egyptology and Coptic Studies at the University of Göttingen since 2000. She previously held visiting positions at the University of Graz (2000-2010) and interim professorships in Basel (1999) while directing the DFG-funded Prosopographical Lexicon of Non-Royal Women of the New Kingdom (1999-2005).

Education & academic milestones:

• 1974-1978: Undergraduate studies in Egyptology, Coptology and Assyriology, Göttingen & Tübingen
• 1980: M.A. Göttingen
• 1983: Ph.D. Tübingen
• 1995: Habilitation, Göttingen

Research focus: Her work concentrates on Egyptian religion of the 1st millennium BCE, especially temple texts and decorative programs of the Greco-Roman period, Horus stelae, gender-specific prosopography, and cultural contacts under Persian rule. She combines philological analysis of hieroglyphic, Demotic and Coptic sources with broader questions of religious history and syncretism.

Publication profile: Across five monographs and c. seventy articles she has treated royal annals, funerary religion, divine kingship, and the transformation of script and myth in Late Antique Egypt. Recent papers continue her long-term editorial commitment to the Göttinger Miszellen and the TUAT series, illustrating an enduring interest in editing and contextualising primary sources.

Editorial & collaborative roles:

• Co-editor, Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments (Egyptology section), 1980-2000
• Co-editor, TUAT.NF, since 2001
• Editorial board, Göttinger Miszellen, since 2004
• Member, Graduate School 896 “Images of Gods – Images of God – Worldviews”
• Advisory Board, journal Abgadiyat, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

She currently advises from her office at Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, and can be contacted at hsternb@uni-goettingen.de.