Deutsch Intern
DFG Centre for Advanced Studies MagEIA

Sofie Schiødt

Research Interests

  • Medicine and magic
  • Social history
  • Science and technology
  • Mummification and funerary practices

Curriculum Vitae

2011–2014

BA in Egyptology and Archaeology, University of Copenhagen
2014–2016 MA in Egyptology, University of Copenhagen and University of Liverpool
2016‒2017 External lecturer (part time), University of Copenhagen
2017–2021 PhD in Egyptology, University of Copenhagen (incl. 6-month research stay at Universität Leipzig)
2020 Research assistant, University of Copenhagen
2021‒2022 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Copenhagen
2022‒2024 Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2025–2027 External research affiliate, University of Copenhagen

Publications (selection)

Edited volumes

  • Schiødt, S. (ed.). 2024. The Carlsberg Papyri 18. Two Medical Manuscripts: The Hieratic P. Carlsberg 8 and the Coptic Codex P. Carlsberg 500, CNI Publications 48. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
  • Schiødt, S., Jacob, A., Ryholt, K. (eds). 2023. Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East: Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt International Conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019, New York, ISAW Monographs. New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World/New York University Press.

Articles

  • Schiødt, S. 2025. “Interactions between Patient and Healer in Ancient Egypt,” in F. Löffler, D. von Recklinghausen, A. Rickert, B. Ventker (eds), Tempel, Tiere, Sternenhimmel. Studien zur ägyptischen Religion und Naturwissenschaft für Christian Leitz, 833–851. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  • Schiødt, S. 2024. “New Kingdom Hieratic Texts in Danish Collections,” in Crossing Boundaries (ed.), New Kingdom Hieratic Collections from Around the World, Ægyptiaca Leodiensia 13/1, 89–98. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège. DOI: 10.25518/978-2-87562-416-1.05.
  • Schiødt, S. 2024. “An Ophthalmological Treatise from the New Kingdom: Papyrus Carlsberg 8 Recto,” in S. Schiødt (ed.), The Carlsberg Papyri 18. Two Medical Manuscripts: The Hieratic P. Carlsberg 8 and the Coptic Codex P. Carlsberg 500, CNI Publications 48, 1–45. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
  • Schiødt, S. 2024. “Gynecology and Birth Prognoses in the New Kingdom: Papyrus Carlsberg 8 Verso,” in S. Schiødt (ed.), The Carlsberg Papyri 18. Two Medical Manuscripts: The Hieratic P. Carlsberg 8 and the Coptic Codex P. Carlsberg 500, CNI Publications 48, 47–78. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
  • Schiødt, S. 2024. “Embalming Manuals in Ancient Egypt,” in N. Reggiani (ed.), Miraggi d’eternità: le mummie egizie dal tempo dei papyri ad oggi, Papyrotheke 16, 61–82. Parma: Silva.
  • Schiødt, S. 2023. “Contending with Swellings in Ancient Egypt: Notions of Skin Disease and Disease Causation in Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg,” in S. Schiødt, A. Jacob, K. Ryholt (eds), Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East: Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt International Conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019, New York, ISAW Monographs, 23‒56. New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World/New York University Press.
  • Schiødt, S. 2023. “‘Its Leaves are Like the Daughter of the Willow’: The Herbal Genre in Ancient Egypt,” Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 150/2, 262–280. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaes-2021-0016.
  • Schiødt, S. 2023. “In the Embalmers’ Workshop,” in K. Jensen (ed.), Egypt: Obsessed with Life, 40‒55. Horsens: Stibo Complete.
  • Stevens, A., Dabbs, G. R., Balestra, F., Tully, G., Schiødt, S., Rose, P., Clapham, A., Docherty, P., Garnett, A., Bertram. M. 2023. “Tell el-Amarna, 2022,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 109/1–2, 90–116.

Reviews

  • Schiødt, S. 2025. Review of R. David & R. Forshaw, Medicine and Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 119/4–5, 215–220.
  • Schiødt, S. 2023. Review of N. Schmidt, Körperflüssigkeiten und -ausscheidungen der Götter des Alten Ägyptens. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 118/6, 375–377.