Leo Depuydt

Leo Depuydt is a Belgian Egyptologist , Coptologist and ancient orientalist . He is Professor of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island .

The from Flanders originating Leo Depuydt studied from 1975 initially Classical Philology at the Catholic University of Leuven , he participated in the 1979 with the Licentiate completed. He then studied Oriental Studies in Leuven, where he also obtained his licentiate in 1981. This was followed by postgraduate studies at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati , Ohio in 1982, which he continued from 1982 to 1984 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Here he mainly studied with Hans Jakob Polotsky , with whom he remained connected until his death in 1991.

Interrupted by his military service in 1983/84, some of which he performed in Germany, he continued his postgraduate studies in 1984 at the University of Tübingen , where he studied Egyptology and Semitic studies with a DAAD scholarship . Eventually he moved to Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut . There he deepened his studies of the Near Eastern languages ​​and civilizations, especially the Coptic and ancient Egyptian languages, until 1990 . After a Master of Philosophy in 1987, he was at Yale in 1990 with a thesis on Coptic Greek and Coptic Arabic manuscripts of the New York Pierpont Morgan Library in Bentley Layton for Ph.D. PhD .

From 1989 until his doctorate he was Senior Lecturer at Yale, from 1991 as Assistant Professor , from 1995 to 2011 as Associate Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. Since 2011 he has held the Chair of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University.

In addition to general aspects of Egyptology and the relationships between ancient Egypt and its neighbors in the Mediterranean and the Middle East in linguistic and historical terms, Leo Depuydt's research focuses on Coptic manuscripts as well as the grammar and history of the ancient Egyptian language. In addition, there is the preoccupation with questions of chronology , astronomy and calendars , as well as the related problems of heortology (celebratory studies), ancient science and mathematics.

Leo Depuydt presented the results of his research not only in extensive monographs, but above all in over 140 peer-reviewed articles.

Memberships (selection)

• American Oriental Society
• German Oriental Society
• Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes
• International Association of Coptic Studies
• International Association of Egyptologists
• International Association for Nubian Studies

Publications (selection)

• Catalog of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Peeters Press, Leuven 1993.
• Conjunction, Contiguity, Contingency: On Relationships between Events in the Egyptian and Coptic Verbal Systems. Oxford University Press, New York 1993.
• Materials for Egyptian Grammar: Catalog of Coordinates and Satellites of the Middle Egyptian Verb. Peeters, Löwen 1996.
• Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Volume 77). Department Oosterse Studies, Leuven 1997.
• Fundamentals of Egyptian Grammar. Part 1: Elements. Frog Publishing, Norton (Mass.) 1999 (second edition 2012).
• The Other Mathematics: Language and Logic in Egyptian and in General. Gorgias Press, Piscataway (NJ) 2008.
• From Xerxes 'Murder (465) to Arridaios' Execution (317): Updates to Achaemenid Chronology. Archaeopress, Oxford 2008.

Web links

• Biographical information on the Brown University website
• Curriculum vitae including a comprehensive bibliography on the Brown University website (PDF)