Prof Stephan Seidlmayer (Kairo, Berlin)
Egyptology
“Egyptologist Prof Stephan Seidlmayer is one of the most renowned representatives of his discipline at an international level. Director of the Cairo Department at the German Archaeological Institute since 2009, he has excelled not only at epigraphic and archaeological fieldwork, amongst other things, on Elephantine Island and at the excavations of the necropolis at Dahshur, but also as a philologist, in the latter case, as the Director of the 'Ancient Egyptian Dictionary' project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and HUmanities. Seidlmayer combines outstanding academic expertise with effective scholarly, politico-cultural practices.”
(The jury's reasoning)