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Leclant, Jean
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1920-2011
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French Egyptologist; he was born in Paris, 8 August 1920, son of René L., a merchant and Laurence Pannier; he studied at the École normale supérieure, 1940-5 and the École pratique des hautes études, 1953; Dr ès lettres, 1963; he was attached to CNRS, 1946-8 and served at IFAO, 1948-52; he directed a mission to Ethiopia, 1952; he became lecturer, 1953-5 and then professor, 1955-63 at the University of Strasbourg; he was appointed Professor of Egyptology at the Sorbonne, 1963-79 and director of studies at the the École pratique des hautes études, 1964-90; he became Professor of Egyptology at the Collège de France, 1979-90; he excavated at Axum, 1952-6; Karnak, Saqqara from 1963-99; Soleb, 1960-78; and Sedeinga from 1979; he produced the annual 'Fouilles et travaux en Égypte et au Soudan' in Orientalia, 1948-2002; editor of the Meroitic Newsletter and Annales d'Éthiopie, 1955-72; Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur; Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 3 May 1974 and its secrétaire perpétuel, 24 June 1983; Vice-President of the Société francaise d'égyptologie, 1965; President, 1970-9; he was head of the Advisory Committee on overseas excavations, 1973-88; Vice-President of the French section of UNESCO; his principal publications were Enquêtes sur les sacerdoces et les sanctuaires égyptiens a l'époque dite Ethiopienne (XXe dynastie), 1954; with others, Karnak-nord IV, 1954; In the Steps of the Pharaohs, 1958; Montouemhat, Quatrième Prophète d'Amon, 1961; Recherches sur les monuments thébains de la XXVe dynastie dite ‘éthiopienne’ 1965; with others, Soleb I-II, 1965-71; with J.-P. Lauer, Mission archéologique de Saqqarah I. Le temple haut du complexe funéraire du roi Téti, 1972; with G. Clerc, Inventaire bibliographique des Isiaca, 1972-4; with others, Mission archéologique de Saqqarah II. Le temple haut du complexe funéraire du roi Ounas, 1977; with others, Le temps des pyramides, 1978; Recherches dans la pyramide et au temple haut du Pharaon Pépi Ier à Saqqarah, 1979; with R. Parker and J.-C. Goyon, The Edifice of Taharqa by the Sacred Lake of Karnak, 1979; with others, L'Empire des conquérants, 1979, with others, L'Égypte du crépuscule, 1980; De l'égyptophilie a l'égyptologie, 1985; with H. Fischer, L'écriture et l'art de l'Égypte ancienne. Quatre leçons sur la paléographie et l'épigraphie pharaoniques, 1986; with A. Zivie, Memphis et ses nécropoles au Nouvel Empire, 1988; with J.-P. Lauer and A. Labrousse, L'architecture des pyramides à textes I, Saqqara-Nord, 1996; with M. Rassart-Debergh, Textiles d'Antinoe, 1997; with others, L'expédition d'Égypte, postérités et prospectives, 1998; with D. Valbelle, Le décret de Memphis, bicentenaire de la découverte de la Pierre de Rosette, 1999; Répertoire d'épigraphie méroïtique: corpus des inscriptions publiées, 2000; Au fil du Nil, le parcours d'un égyptologue, 2001; with others, Les textes de la pyramide de Pépy ler I, 2001; Dictionnaire de l'Antiquité, 2005; he died in Paris, 16 September 2011; his library was added to the Champollion Library at the Collège de France, Paris.
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- Who Was Who in Egyptology (5th ed. 2019), 268-269 fig. (portrait).