Erik Hornung (1933), born in Riga, Latvia, Ph.D. Univ. of Tubingen 1956, Professor of Egyptology Univ. of Basle, Switzerland, 1967-1998. His research has focused on the Valley of the Kings and the edition of the Books of the Netherworid; he published the first edition of the Amduat in 1963. Since 1988 Vice-President of the Society of the Friends of the Royal Tombs of Egypt. Of his many books in German, several have been translated into English: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt. The One and the Many, 1982 (Paperback 1996); The Valley of the Kings: Horizon of Eternity, 1990; The Tomb of Pharaoh Seti I., 1991; History of Ancient Egypt. An Introduction, 1999; Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, 1999; The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife, 1999; The Secret Lore of Egypt, 2001.
Theodor Abt, born in 1947 in Zurich, Switzerland, earned his PhD from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Since 1975, he has been a Jungian analyst in private practice and a member of the board of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. He has also been professor for rural sociology at the ETH, a member of the board of the Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology in Zurich, and president of the Society of the Friends of the Royal Tombs of Egypt. His research focuses on the relationship of the outer world with the needs of the inner unconscious world. One of his publications in German is available in English, "Progress Without Loss of Soul."
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