Jean Leclant

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Jean Leclant (born August 8, 1920 in Paris ; † September 16, 2011 ibid) was a French Egyptologist .

Life

Leclant studied from 1940 to 1945 at the École normal supérieure and graduated in geography. He made his first contact with Egyptology in 1945 when he was sent to Vienna as an officer in occupied post-war Austria after the end of the Second World War . Leclant took up a degree in Egyptology and dealt in this context with the language of Egypt and Nubia .

After he had finished his studies, Leclant worked in the Louvre and later worked in Cairo , from where he also took part in excavations such as in Karnak and Tanis . From 1953 he worked at the University of Strasbourg , where he became a professor in 1955.

From 1963 to 1979 Leclant was a professor at the Sorbonne and carried out excavations at the pyramids of Saqqara with Jean-Philippe Lauer from 1966 to 1990 . In 1979 he took over the professorship for Egyptology at the Collège de France , which Jean-François Champollion held before him . In 1990 he retired.

From 1974 he was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , whose “secrétaire perpétuel” he was from 1983 until his death. Since 1988 he has been a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and since 1991 of the British Academy and since 1994 an external member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 1999 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Leclant, Jean. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed January 4, 2019 (in Russian).
  3. ^ Member History: Jean Leclant. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 4, 2019 (with biographical notes).
personal data
SURNAME Leclant, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 2011
Place of death Paris