German by birth, Egyptologist by profession, Dr. Christian Leitz studied Egyptology, Assyriology and Coptology at the universities in Marburg and Göttingen receiving his PhD in Göttingen in 1989. In 1993, he was habilitated at the University of Cologne where he also held a Heisenberg scholarship from the German Research Foundation from 1993 to 1998. From 1999 to 2003, he led the project “Lexicon of Egyptian Gods and Names of Gods” at the Seminar for Egyptology in Cologne.

Since 2004, he has been a full professor of Egyptology at the University of Tübingen also teaching as a visiting professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and the Collège de France (both in Paris) and at Cairo University.

His most important current research work is the Athribis Project. The objective is to fully and thoroughly research, preserve and publish the written records, material technologies and architectural history of the large temple in the ancient city of Athribis dedicated to the god Min-Re, his wife Repyt and their son, the child-god Kolanthes. The site is near the modern Middle Egyptian city of Sohag.