Abstract
The first direct contacts of German scholarship with the Nag Hammadi codices came through the distinguished Copt Murad Kamil, who had a doctorate from Germany and a teaching position as 'habilitated' at a German university, in both cases the University of Tubingen. While participating in the Twenty-Fourth International Congress of Orientalists held in Munich in August 1957, he made preliminary plans with Alexander Bohlig for Bohlig to visit Egypt and participate in the publication of the Nag Hammadi codices; and Murad Kamil received on the same occasion an offer from Rolf Ibscher for the latter to come to Cairo to conserve them. Furthermore, the German Democratic Republic was at the time not recognized by UNESCO, and hence its citizens could not be named to UNESCO committees. Yet scholars in the German Democratic Republic became involved in Nag Hammadi research in the period prior to the involvement of UNESCO.Keywords: Egypt; German Democratic Republic; Germany; Nag Hammadi codices; UNESCO
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