Dominic Montserrat

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Dominic Alexander Sebastian Montserrat (born January 2, 1964 in Slough , † September 23, 2004 in London ) was a British Egyptologist and papyrologist .

Life

Montserrat holds a degree in Egyptology from Durham University and a PhD in Classical Antiquities specializing in Greek , Coptic and Egyptian papyrology from University College London . From 1992 to 1999 he taught classical antiquity at Warwick University . His increasingly deteriorating state of health prompted Montserrat, who had suffered from haemophilia since birth, to leave teaching in 1999 and to switch to research at the Open University . He died in 2004 at the age of forty as a result of his illness.

Despite his health restrictions, Montserrat developed a remarkable productivity in his short scholarly life: He sat on the committee of the Egypt Exploration Society , for which he also published regularly, and made a decisive contribution to the 2002 award-winning traveling exhibition Ancient Egypt: Digging For Dreams of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology as a curator . Most recently, he co-presented the documentary series The Egyptian Detectives , a production of the National Geographic Channel and Channel Five, to the general public .

In his debut Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt (1996) Montserrat presented a broad study of ancient sexuality and its cultural manifestations in Egypt . In his second book Akhenaten from 2000 he dealt with the life and time of Akhenaten , whose long survival as an anachronistic projection screen for modern theories and ideas he analyzed and critically questioned.

Fonts (selection)

  • Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt , Kegan Paul, London & New York 1996, ISBN 0-7103-0530-3
  • From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views. A Source History , Routledge, London & New York 1996, ISBN 0-415-09335-X (Associate Editor)
  • Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt , Routledge, London & New York 2000, ISBN 0-415-18549-1

literature

  • Dorothy J. Thompson: Dominic Montserrat (1964-2004) . In: Mario Capasso (Ed.): Hermae. Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology II . Pisa / Rome 2010, p. 103 (with picture)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Independent : Dominic Montserrat. Egyptologist who lived on borrowed time , accessed September 3, 2010
  2. ↑ a b The Guardian : Dominic Montserrat. Egyptologist and writer , accessed September 3, 2010
  3. ↑ Bryn Mawr Classical Review : Dominic Montserrat, Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt , accessed September 3, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Montserrat, Dominic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montserrat, Dominic Alexander Sebastian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Egyptologist and papyrologist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Slough
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 2004
Place of death London