Ludwig Borchardt

Ludwig Borchardt (5 October 1863 — 12 August 1938) was a German Egyptologist who was born in Berlin.

Borchardt initially studied Architecture and later Egyptology under Adolf Erman. In 1895 he journeyed to Cairo and produced, with Gaston Maspero, the Catalogue of the Egyptian Museum. In 1907 he founded the German Archeological Institute (or Deutsche Archäologische Institut or DAI) in Cairo, and remained its director until 1928.

His main focus was Ancient Egyptian architecture. He began excavations in Amarna, where he discovered the workshop of the sculptor Djhutmose, amongst its contents was the bust of Nefertiti, (now in the Berlin Egyptology Museum). he also directed the excavations in Heliopolis and the tombs of Old Kingdom nobles in Abu Gorab.

He died in Paris, on 12 August 1938

Publications

• Baugeschichte des Amontempels von Karnak (1905)
• Die Annalen und die zeitliche Festlegung des Alten Reiches der ägyptischen Geschichte (1917)
• Quellen und Forschungen zur Zeitbestimmung der Ägyptischen Geschichte, 3 Bde. (1917-1938)