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Kurt Heinrich Sethe (30 September 1869 – 6 July 1934) was aGermanEgyptologist andphilologist fromBerlin. He was a student ofAdolf Erman. Sethe collected numerous texts fromEgypt during his visits there and edited theUrkunden des ægyptischen Altertums which is a standard catalogue of Ancient Egyptian literature and text.
Among Sethe's many contributions to Egyptology, two are singled out by Gardiner (p. 433): "...the pronunciation of Middle Egyptian... The chief authorities to be consulted are Sethe's great work on the Egyptian verb, and a much later brilliant article entitledDie Vokalisation des Ägyptischen inZeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft"" (1923). Actually, Sethe was the first one to put forth a systematic theory of theEgyptian verb; it was no easy accomplishment, since theinflection of the Egyptian verb was done mainly by changing the vowels, and the Egyptians only wrote consonants.
Among Sethe's students wereHans Jakob Polotsky andAlan Gardiner. Sethe's anthology,Aegyptische Lesestuecke, is still used by some beginners in the study of the language. Sethe also published a comprehensive collection of Egyptianepigraphy, which he calledUrkunden der Aegyptologie.
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