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Joris Borghouts

Joris Borghouts

Dutch Egyptologist (1939–2018)

Joris Frans Borghouts (17 June 1939 – 7 September 2018) was a Dutch Egyptologist. He was Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University from 1985 to 2004.

Career

Borghouts was born in Ginneken [nl] on 17 June 1939.[1] 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.[2]

Borghouts succeeded Jac. J. Janssen as professor and head of the Egyptology department in 1985. Under Borghouts the department reached its maximum size.[2] 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.[3][4] Borghouts retired in 2004.[1] However, he remained attached to Leiden University and The Netherlands Institute for the Near East.[2][5]

Borghouts was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.[6] He died on 7 September 2018.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Joris Frans Borghouts" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  2. [2]
    O.E. Kaper & O.G. Dercksen (2014). "Waar de geschiedenis begon: Nederlandse onderzoekers in de ban van spijkerschrift, hiërogliefen en aardewerk". Netherlands Institute for the Near East. pp. 46–51. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
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    "Kleine Letteren voelen zich bedreigd" (in Dutch). Mare Online. 2001. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
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    "Bijna de mond gesnoerd" (in Dutch). de Volkskrant. 12 May 2001. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
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    "Prof. dr. J.F. (Joris) Borghouts (Emeritus)". Leiden University. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  6. [6]
    "J.F. Borghouts". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017.
  7. [7]
    "In Memoriam Prof. Dr. J.F. Borghouts". NINO Leiden. Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
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