François Daumas
François Félix Eugène Daumas (born January 3, 1915 in Castelnau-le-Lez , † October 16, 1984 ibid) was a French Egyptologist .
Daumas received his Agrégation des lettres in 1938 , studying Egyptology with Gustave Lefebvre , Pierre Lacau and Michel Malinine, as well as Hebrew, Arabic and other oriental languages. He made friends with his fellow student Antoine Guillaumont (1915-2000), later a specialist in the Coptic language and Gnosis. In 1942 he was a high school teacher in Tournon and then in Montpellier . After the liberation in 1944 he was briefly mayor of his hometown and in 1946 received his diploma from the École pratique des hautes études . He then went to Egypt, where he became director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) in Cairo in 1959 . In 1958 he received his doctorate on Mammisi . After his return from Egypt in 1969 he was the founder of the Center for Egyptology at the University of Montpellier III, which is named after him today. It is thanks to him one of the leading French centers for Egyptology. Daumas' successors as directors were Gérard Godron and Jean-Claude Grenier .
Daumas was particularly concerned with Egyptian religion and the temple of Dendera . His books on Egypt for a wider audience have been reprinted several times and his book on Egyptian cultural history has also been translated into German.
He also excavated remains of Roman settlement on the Substantion plateau near his hometown in 1958.
He was a member of the Académie des sciences et lettres de Montpellier and a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1972).
Fonts
- Les Moyens d'expression du grec et de l'égyptien comparés dans les décrets de Canope et de Memphis. Ecole pratique des hautes études, 1952
- Les Mammisis des temples egyptiens. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1958 (dissertation, Thèse d'Etat)
- Les Mammisis de Dendara. IFAO, Cairo, 1959
- Les dieux de l'Égypte. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1965, 1977
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La civilization de l'Égypte pharaonique. Arthaud, 1965, 1982, 1995
- German translation: Egyptian culture in the age of the pharaohs. Droemer-Knaur, Munich 1969 (Knaurs Große Kulturgeschichte series)
- with Émile Chassinat : Le temple de Dendara. IFAO, Cairo, Volume VI, 1965, VII, 1972, VIII 1978, IX 1987 (the first of the nine volumes appeared in 1934 with Chassinat as the author, it is completed by Sylvie Cauville)
- with A. Guillaumont: Kellia I, Kôm 219. IFAO, Cairo, 1969
- La vie dans l'Égypte ancienne. Que sais je ?, PUF (Presses Universitaires de France), Paris, 1974
- with André Barucq: Hymnes et prières de l'Égypte ancienne. Editions du CERF, 1980
- with Cyril Aldred , Christiane Desroches Noblecourt , d Jean Leclant : L'Égypte du crépuscule. L'univers des formes , Gallimard, Paris, 1980
- with G. Castel and JC Golvin: Les fontaines de la porte nord, Dendera, monuments de l'enceinte sacrée. Cairo, 1984
- Amour de la vie et sens du divin dans l'Égypte ancienne. Edition Fata Morgana, Collection Hermes, 1998
literature
- Robert-Henrie Bautier: Allocution à la mémoire de M. François Daumas, correspondant français de l'Académie. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1984, pp. 494-496 ( full text ).
- Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology. 4th rev. ed. London 2012, p. 143
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daumas, François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Daumas, François Félix Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castelnau-le-Lez |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1984 |
| Place of death | Castelnau-le-Lez |