Alexandre Moret
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Alexandre Moret (French: [mɔʁɛ]; 19 September 1868, Aix-les-Bains – 2 February 1938, Paris) was a French Egyptologist.
From 1906 to 1923 Moret was curator of the Musée Guimet.[1] In 1918 Moret succeeded Émile Amélineau as Director of Studies for the Religions of Egypt within the Fifth Section of the École pratique des hautes études, devoted to religious science.[2]
In 1923 he became Professor of Egyptology at the College de France, and in 1927 a member of the French Academy. In 1926 he delivered the Frazer Lecture at Oxford University, taking the killing of god in Egypt as his theme.[3]
Moret developed an interest in Durkheimian sociology, co-authoring a book on ancient society with Georges Davy.[4]
