Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing

He studied classical philology, archaeology, Egyptology and art history in Bonn and Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1896 with the thesis "De tabula quam dicunt statistica Tuthmosis III commentatio(Commentary on the record of the statistics of Tuthmosis III)".

He was instrumental towards the development of the "General catalog" of the Cairo Museum (Catalogue général des antiquités Egyptiennes du Musée du Caire),[1][2] and with Ludwig Borchardt, conducted an archaeological excavation of the Sun Temple of Nyuserre Ini at Abu Gurab.

[4] Bissing was considered politically reactionary, he was accused of ethnic, anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic attitudes.

He remained a devout Protestant and was even a member of the state synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.

After the so-called "Reichspogromnacht" in 1938, he visited his Jewish colleague Georg Steindorff to express his regret about what had happened.