Max Uhlemann, in full Maximilian Adolph Uhlemann (died 1862) was a German Egyptologist who in 1853 published the third
Latin translation of the
Egyptianhieroglyphic text of the
Rosetta Stone inscription. He was the son of
Friedrich Gottlob Uhlemann, who taught theology at the universities of
Berlin and
Leipzig.
Max Uhlemann's research at
Leipzig, where he initially studied history and archaeology and eventually specialised in
ancient Egypt and its literature, led to a doctorate in 1851.
Gustav Seyffarth was among his teachers at Leipzig. In 1853, apart from his work on the Rosetta Stone, he also completed and published a
Coptic grammar. From 1854 until his early death in 1862 he was a lecturer (Privatdozent) in Egyptian language and literature at the
Universität Göttingen. His Drei Tage in Memphis (1856) was an early attempt to describe everyday life in ancient Egypt for a general audience; an English translation, Three Days in Memphis, appeared in 1858. This was followed by a historical novel, Der letzte der Ramessiden ("The Last of the Ramessids"), which ran to two editions in 1860 and 1863.
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De veterum Aegyptiorum lingua et litteris: sive de optima signa hieroglyphica explicandi via atque ratione. Leipzig, 1851
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Quae, qualia, quanta? Eine Bestätigung des Quousque tandem der Champollionischen Schule. Berlin, 1852
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Inscriptionis Rosettanae hieroglyphicae decretum sacerdotale. Leipzig, 1853
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