Nicolas Grimal

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Name Nicolas Grimal		Parents Pierre Grimal

Books A History of Ancient Egypt

conférence de Nicolas Grimal "RECHERCHES ACTUELLES EN ÉGYPTOLOGIE"

Nicolas-Christophe Grimal (born in Libourne on 13 November 1948) is a French Egyptologist.

Nicolas Grimal Lessentiel avec Nicolas Grimal de lAcadmie des inscriptions

Biographie et Débat de la conférence de Nicolas Grimal.

Biography

Nicolas Grimal was born to Pierre Grimal in 1948. After his Agrégation in Classics in 1971, he obtained a PhD in 1976 and a Doctorat d'État in 1984. He has been a professor at the Sorbonne from 1988 to 2000.

From 1989 to 1999, he headed the French Institute of Oriental Archeology in Cairo. Since 1990, he has been the scientific director of the Franco-Egyptian Centre for study of the temples of Karnak. He has held the chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France since 2000.

Honours

Prix Gaston Maspero (1987)

Prix Diane Potier-Boes (1989)

Commander of the Palmes académiques

Officer of the ordre national du Mérite

Knight of the Légion d'honneur

Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (2006).

Member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (2016).

Foreign Associate of the Deutsches archäologisches Instituts, Berlin (1995).

Member of the Institut d'Égypte (1994).

Foreign Associate of the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien (2007).

Works

Histoire de l'Égypte ancienne, Fayard, Paris, 1988, ISBN 2-213-02191-0 (English: A History of Ancient Egypt, Blackwell, 1992, ISBN 0631174729)

Leçon inaugurale, faite le mardi 10 mars 2000, Collège de France, Chaire de civilisation pharaonique, archéologie, philologie, histoire, Collège de France, Paris, 2000

Leçon inaugurale, faite le mardi 24 octobre 2000, Collège de France, Paris, 2000.

References

Nicolas Grimal Wikipedia

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