Jean Yoyotte
Jean Yoyotte (born August 4, 1927 , † July 1, 2009 ) was a French Egyptologist , professor of Egyptology at the Collège de France and research director at the École pratique des hautes études .
Career
During his school days at the Lycée Henri-IV , he made friends with Serge Sauneron , who later became director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale . At the age of 15 he attended a course with Jacques Vandier at the École du Louvre . At the age of 16 he became a student at the École pratique des hautes études with Georges Posener . At the age of 22 he did research at the Center national de la recherche scientifique . He spent the years 1952 to 1956 at the Institut français d'archéologie orientale in Cairo. In 1964 he was appointed research director for ancient Egyptian religion at the École pratique des hautes études and between 1965 and 1985 he headed the French excavations in Tanis in the eastern Nile Delta . In 1987 he organized a large exhibition on the excavations in Tanis in the Grand Palais in Paris. In 1992 he was appointed to the chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France , which he held until 2000.
Works
- With Georges Posener , Serge Sauneron : Dictionnaire de la civilization égyptienne . 1959
- With Serge Sauneron: La naissance du monde selon l'Égypte ancienne. In: La Naissance du Monde. Paris 1959; German: Egyptian creation myths. In: Mircea Eliade (preface): The creation myths. Zurich 1964 and Düsseldorf 2002, pp. 37–99
- Les trésors des pharaons . 1968
- Tanis l'or of the pharaoh . 1987
- With Pascal Vernus : Dictionnaire des pharaons . 1992
- With Pascal Vernus: Bestiaire des pharaons . 2001
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| SURNAME | Yoyotte, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Egyptologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 2009 |