Jean Yoyotte
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| Born | 4 August 1927 Lyon, France |
| Died | 1 July 2009 (aged 81) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Egyptologist |
Jean Yoyotte (4 August 1927 – 1 July 2009) was a French Egyptologist, a professor of Egyptology at the Collège de France and director of research at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE).[1]
Biography
Born in 1927 at
He participated with other colleagues committed to the left (Elena Cassin, Maxime Rodinson, Maurice Godelier, Charles Malamoud, André-Georges Haudricourt, Jean-Paul Brisson, Jean Bottéro) in a Marxist think tank organised by Jean-Pierre Vernant. This group took on an institutional form with the creation, in 1964, of the Centre des recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes, which later became the Centre Louis Gernet, focusing more on the study of ancient Greece.[2]
From 1965–85 he was director of the French excavations at Tanis in the eastern Nile Delta; he organized a major exhibition of the results of these excavations in 1987 at the Grand Palais in Paris. In 1992 he was appointed to the chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France, a position which he held until 2000.[1]
Death
Yoyotte died in Paris on 1 July 2009, aged 81.[1]
Significant works
- With Georges Posener and Serge Sauneron: Dictionnaire de la civilisation égyptienne (1959)
- With Serge Sauneron: La naissance du monde selon l'Égypte ancienne, In La Naissance du Monde, Paris (1959)
- Les trésors des pharaons, (1968)
- Tanis l'or des pharaons (1987)
- With Pascal Vernus: Dictionnaire des pharaons (1992) & Bestiaire des Pharaons (2001)
References
- ^ a b c d (in French) Nécrologie de M. Jean Yoyotte (1927-2009) par Christiane Zivie-Coche
- ^ "Vernant Jean-Pierre". www.ex-pcf.com. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
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