Herman de Meulenaere

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Herman De Meulenaere (born May 14, 1923 in Bruges , † June 5, 2011 in Brussels ) was a Belgian Egyptologist and director of the Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth .

Career

Herman De Meulenaere studied Classical Philology and Egyptology in Leuven , Leiden and Paris and initially taught Latin at the Royal Athenaeum in Brussels . In 1951 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Herodotus' stories about the pharaohs of the 26th dynasty. 1958/59 he was visiting professor at Brown University . In the 1960s he was a member of the Committee to Save the Nubian Monuments, which were endangered by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. In 1963 he became professor of Egyptology in Ghent and curator of the Egyptian collection of the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire in Brussels. 1984–1988 he was director of this institution. Later he was director of the Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth . In Egypt he took part in excavations in Elkab and Thebes .

Works

  • Herodotos over de 26th Dynasty (II, 147 - III, 15) (Bibliothèque du Muséon 27), Leuven 1951
  • Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period , Brooklyn 1960 (together with BV Bothmer and HW Müller)
  • Le surnom egyptien à la Basse Époque (UNHAII 19), Leiden 1966
  • La chapelle ptolémaique de Kalabcha , 2nd vol., Cairo 1964–1970 (together with M. Dewachter and M. Aly)
  • Gerf Hussein III , Cairo (et al.)
  • Mendes II , Warminster 1976 (with P. Mackay)

Festschrift

  • L. Limme, J. Strybol (ed.): Aegyptus museis rediviva. Miscellanea in Honorem Hermanni de Meulenaere , Brussels 1993

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archaeogate Egittologia: Sad news about Prof. Herman De Meulenaere ( Memento from June 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Meulenaere, Herman de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2011
Place of death Brussels