Helmut Satzinger (born January 21, 1938, in Linz) is an Austrian Egyptologist and Coptologist.

Five years later he was appointed Assistant Curator at the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and in 1977 he became the Head of the department.

In 1978 he was attested the qualification for academic lecturing (habilitation) in Egyptology at Vienna University.

Till then, his Egyptological research activities were evenly distributed between the museum (catalogues, epigraphic publications, etc.)

Several museum and exhibition catalogues, and presentations of the Vienna Egyptian collection and its history.