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Jan Assmann (Johann Christoph Assmann) was born on 7 July, 1938 in Langelsheim, Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick, Germany, is a German Egyptologist and religion scholar (1938–2024). Discover Jan Assmann's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Johann Christoph Assmann
Occupation music_department
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 7 July 1938
Birthday 7 July
Birthplace Langelsheim, Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick, Germany
Date of death 19 February, 2024
Died Place Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Nationality Germany

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His wife is Aleida Assmann

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Source of Income Music Department

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1938

Johann Christoph "Jan" Assmann (7 July 1938 – 19 February 2024) was a German Egyptologist, cultural historian, and religion scholar.

Assmann studied Egyptology and classical archaeology in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris, and Göttingen.

1966

In 1966–67, he was a fellow of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, where he continued as an independent scholar from 1967 to 1971.

1971

After completing his habilitation in 1971, he was named a professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg in 1976, where he taught until his retirement in 2003.

He was then named an Honorary Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Constance.

1990

In the 1990s, Assmann and his wife Aleida Assmann developed a theory of cultural and communicative memory that has received much international attention.

He is also known beyond Egyptology circles for his interpretation of the origins of monotheism, which he considers as a break from earlier cosmotheism, first with Atenism and later with the Exodus from Egypt of the Israelites.

Assmann died on 19 February 2024, at the age of 85.

Assmann suggested that the ancient Egyptian religion had a more significant influence on Judaism than is generally acknowledged.

He used the term "normative inversion" to suggest that some aspects of Judaism were formulated in direct reaction to Egyptian practices and theology.

He ascribed the principle of normative inversion to a principle established by Manetho which was used by Maimonides in his references to the Sabians.

His book The Price of Monotheism received some criticism for his notion of The Mosaic Distinction.

He too no longer held this theory, at least not in its original form (specifically, the mosaic aspect).