Manfred Bietak
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Manfred Bietak is an Austrian archaeologist. He is the current Professor of Egyptology at the University of Vienna and Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo (Professor der Ägyptologie an der Universität Wien und Leiter des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Kairo). He has previously been a visiting professor at Harvard.
Bietak is best known as the director of the Austrian excavations at two sites: the Nile delta site of Tell el-Daba'a, site of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos period; and of neighbouring Piramesse, the Nineteenth Dynasty capital of Egypt.
He is the author or co-author of several scholarly books, and he also serves as editor for the Egyptological journal Ägypten und Levante ("Egypt and the Levant").
In 2006, there was a three-volume festschrift published in his honour.[1]
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