Georges Posener

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Henri Georges Posener (born September 12, 1906 in Paris , † May 15, 1988 in Massy ) was a French Egyptologist .

From 1945 to 1978, Poznan was Directeur d'Études at the École pratique des hautes études , IVe section. In 1961 he became a professor at the Collège de France and dealt primarily with the literature and papyri of ancient Egypt .

In 1962 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1969 Posener became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , in 1975 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and 1986 of the British Academy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Catalog de ostraca hiératiques littéraires de Deir el-Médineh , 3 volumes (1934–1981)
  • La première domination perse en Egypt (1936)
  • Princes et pays d'Asie et de Nubie (1940)
  • Littérature et politique dans l'Égypte de la XII e dynastie , (1956)
  • De la divinité du Pharaon (1960)
  • La Papyrus Vandier (1985)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 192.
  2. ^ Georges Posener's obituary in the 1989 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
  3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Posener, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Posener, Henri Georges (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1988
Place of death Massy