Kurt Sethe

Kurt Heinrich Sethe (30 September 1869 – 6 July 1934) was a German Egyptologist and philologist from Berlin.

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 entitled Die Vokalisation des Ägyptischen in Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft"" (1923).

Sethe's anthology, Aegyptische Lesestuecke, is still used by some beginners in the study of the language.

Sethe also published a comprehensive collection of Egyptian epigraphy, which he called Urkunden der Aegyptologie.