Georg Steindorff

Georg Steindorff (November 12, 1861, Dessau – August 28, 1951, North Hollywood, California) was a German Egyptologist.

In 1893, the University of Leipzig appointed him to its chair for Egyptology, which had existed since 1870 and had previously been held by Georg Ebers.

On his research trips to Egypt he acquired household and grave furnishings and also small-format artworks.

He also brought larger finds from excavations back to Leipzig with him with the permission of the then French-run Antiquities Service.

After his retirement in 1934, Steindorff lived another four years in Leipzig before emigrating to the United States in 1939, to avoid persecution as a Jew in Nazi Germany.