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Thomas Gertzen studied Egyptology (major), Assyriology and Greco-Roman Archaeology at the universities of Muenster, Oxford and Berlin. His MA-thesis dealt with the "Methods and Aims of W. M. Flinders Petrie". In 2013 he obtained a PhD in History of Science at the Humboldt University, Berlin. His thesis being entitled "École de Berlin und Goldenes Zeitalter (1882-1914) der Ägyptologie als Wissenschaft. Das Lehrer-Schüler-Verhältnis zwischen Ebers, Erman und Sethe". In his most recent project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) he analyzed the role of "Judaism and religious denomination in the History of German Egyptology" at the Moses Mendeslssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam.