Joris Borghouts

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]

References

  1. ^ PEETERS Online Journals Bibliotheca Orientalis Volume 76, issue 1-2 2019
  2. ^ a b "Joris Frans Borghouts" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  3. ^ a b c 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.
  4. ^ Christiaan Weijts (2001). "Kleine Letteren voelen zich bedreigd" (in Dutch). Mare Online. Archived from the original on 5 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  5. ^ Sander van Walsum (12 May 2001). "Bijna de mond gesnoerd" (in Dutch). de Volkskrant. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Prof. dr. J.F. (Joris) Borghouts (Emeritus)". Leiden University. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  7. ^ "In Memoriam Prof. Dr. J.F. Borghouts". Leiden University. 18 September 2018. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021.
  8. ^ "J.F. Borghouts". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017.
  9. ^ "In Memoriam Prof. Dr. J.F. Borghouts". NINO Leiden. Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  10. ^ Leiden University source
  11. ^ Lucipedia Tilburg School of Catholic Theology source
  12. ^ The Netherlands Institute for the Near East source
  13. ^ Leiden University Category source
  14. ^ BIBLIO source
  15. ^ The Netherlands Institute for the Near East source
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