Christiane Ziegler
Christiane Ziegler (born May 3, 1942 in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue ) is a French Egyptologist .
Ziegler studied first at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and then at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she received her doctorate in Egyptology. After completing her studies, she initially worked as a teacher and from 1972 worked at the Egyptian department of the Louvre in Paris, where she was director from 1993 until her retirement in May 2007. She also taught as a professor of Egyptian archeology at the École du Louvre . From 1991 she began her archaeological research in Saqqara . As an author, she wrote several books on the history of Egypt, Egyptian handicrafts and Nubia.
In 2008 she became an officer of the Legion of Honor , and in 2011 she received the Ordre national du Mérite .
Publications (selection)
- with Hervé Champollion, Diane Harlé, L'Égypte de Jean-François Champollion - Lettres et journaux de voyage Jean Paul Mengès - 1989
- with Christophe Barbotin, Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya, Le Louvre: les antiquités égyptiennes , Scala - 1990
- Le mastaba d'Akhethetep: Une chapelle funéraire de l'Ancien Empire , Réunion des Musées Nationaux - 1993
- with Jean-Marcel Humbert and Michael Pantazzi, Égyptomania: L'Égypte dans l'art occidental, 1730–1930 , Réunion des Musées Nationaux - 1994
- with Guillemette Andreu, Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya, L'Égypte ancienne au Louvre , Hachette Littérature - 1997
- Les statues égyptiennes de l'Ancien Empire , Réunion des Musées Nationaux - 1997
- L'art de l'Ancien Empire égyptien: Actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel les 3 et 4 avril 1998 , La Documentation Française - 1999
- with Jean-Pierre Adam, Les pyramides d'Égypte , Hachette Littérature - 1999
- together with Jean-Luc Bovot, Art et archeologie : L'Égypte ancienne , Réunion des Musées Nationaux - 2001
- Les Pharaons , Flammarion - 2002
- Le Scribe "accroupi" , aux éditions Réunion des Musées Nationaux - 2002
- ´ with Annie Gasse, Les stèles d'Horus sur les crocodiles , Réunion des Musées Nationaux - 2004
- with Jean-Luc Bovot, L'art égyptien Larousse - 2004
- Pharaon , Flammarion - 2004
- with Hervé Champollion, L'Égypte: Lettres et journaux du voyage (1828–1829) par Jean-François Champollion , Lodi - 2005
- Le Mastaba d'Akhethetep. Fouilles du Louvre à Saqqara - Peeters, Louvain 2007
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziegler, Christiane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue , France |