Joris Borghouts
Dutch Egyptologist (1939–2018)
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Joris Frans Borghouts (17 June 1939 – 7 September 2018) was a Dutch Egyptologist.[1] He was Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University from 1985 to 2004.
Career
Borghouts was born in Ginneken on 17 June 1939.[2] He obtained his doctorate at Leiden University in 1971 with a dissertation titled: The magical texts of Papyrus Leiden I 348. From 1969 to 1976 he worked as a scientific employee at the Egyptological Seminar of the University of Amsterdam. He returned to Leiden University in 1976.[3]
Borghouts succeeded Jac. J. Janssen as professor and head of the Egyptology department in 1985. Under Borghouts the department reached its maximum size.[3] Around the year 2000 the department became threatened by budget cuts. Borghouts defended the needs of the department and stated that he would see the department become academically irrelevant otherwise.[4][5] Borghouts retired in 2004.[2] However, he remained attached to Leiden University and The Netherlands Institute for the Near East where he became a research fellow in the year of his retirement.[3][6][7]
Borghouts was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.[8] He died on 7 September 2018 in Leiden.[9]
Bibliography
- The magical texts of Papyrus Leiden I 348 (proefschrift; Leiden, 1971)[10]
- Egyptische sagen en verhalen (Bussum, 1974 en herdrukken)[11]
- "Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts", Nisaba, vol. 9, Leiden, 1978 PDF
- Nieuwjaar in het oude Egypte (inaugurele rede; Leiden, 1986)[12]
- Egyptisch. Een inleiding in schrift en taal van het Middenrijk. Vol. I: Grammatica en syntaxis, Vol. II: Tekenlijsten, oefeningen, bloemlezing. MVEOL 30 (Leiden/Leuven, 1993)[13]
- Book of the Dead [39]: from shouting to structure. Studien zum Altägyptischen Totenbuch 10 (Wiesbaden, 2007)[14]
- Egyptian. An introduction to the writing and language of the Middle Kingdom. Vol. I: Grammar, syntax and indexes, Vol. II: Sign lists, exercises and reading texts. Egyptologische Uitgaven 24 (Leiden/Leuven, 2010)[15]