Pierre Jouguet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pierre Jouguet

French Egyptologist

Date of Birth: 14-May-1869

Place of Birth: Bessèges, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 09-Jul-1949

Profession: historian, egyptologist, archaeologist, epigrapher, hellenist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Pierre Jouguet

  • Pierre Jouguet (14 May 1869 – 9 July 1949) was a French Egyptologist and classical philologist.
  • In 1890 he studied at the École Normale SupĂ©rieure in Paris, obtaining his agrĂ©gation for grammar in 1893.
  • For three years thereafter he was associated with the École française d’Athènes, followed by work at the Institut Français d'ArchĂ©ologie Orientale in Cairo (1896–97).
  • From 1898 to 1910, he was a lecturer of grammar and philology at the Faculty of Arts in Lille.
  • On June 8, 1911 he received his doctorate of letters at the Sorbonne, subsequently serving as a professor of ancient history and papyrology in Lille (1911–1914 and 1918–1920).
  • From 1920 to 1933, he was a professor of papyrology at the Sorbonne, meanwhile serving as director of the Institut Français d'ArchĂ©ologie Orientale (1928-1940).
  • From 1937 to 1949, he was a professor at Fouad I University in Cairo.During his earlier years spent in Egypt (1896–97, 1900), he translated numerous Greek papyri and participated at the excavatory site at Ghorân.
  • In 1901–02 at Fayoum, he discovered a small Hellenistic necropolis.
  • In 1904, at Lille, he founded the Institut de Papyrologie.
  • He was also founder of the SociĂ©tĂ© royale Ă©gyptienne de Papyrologie and co-founder of the SociĂ©tĂ© française d’Égyptologie and the Institut international de Recherches hellĂ©nistiques.

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