Pierre Jouguet (14 May 1869 – 9 July 1949) was a French

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religiou ...

and

classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and ot ...

. In 1890 he studied at the

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in Paris, obtaining his agrégation for

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in 1893. For three years thereafter he was associated with the École française d’Athènes, followed by work at the

Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale The Institut français d'archéologie orientale (or IFAO), also known as the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, is a French research institute based in Cairo, Egypt, dedicated to the study of the archaeology, history and language ...

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...

(1896–97). From 1898 to 1910, he was a lecturer of grammar and

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

at the Faculty of Arts in

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. On 8 June 1911 he received his doctorate of letters at the

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, subsequently serving as a professor of ancient history and

papyrology Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

in Lille (1911–1914 and 1918–1920).Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
biography
biographical sketch From 1920 to 1933, he was a professor of papyrology at the Sorbonne, meanwhile serving as director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (1928-1940). From 1937 to 1949, he was a professor at Fouad I University in Cairo. During his earlier years spent in

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(1896–97, 1900), he translated numerous Greek papyri and participated at the excavatory site at Ghorân. In 1901–02 at

Fayoum Faiyum ( ar, الفيوم ' , borrowed from cop, ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ ' from egy, pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake") is a city in Middle Egypt. Located southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum ...

, he discovered a small Hellenistic necropolis. In 1904, at Lille, he founded the Institut de Papyrologie. He was also founder of the Société royale égyptienne de Papyrologie and co-founder of the Société française d’Égyptologie and the Institut international de Recherches hellénistiques.

Selected works

* ''Ostraka du Fayoum'', in ''Bulletin de l'institut français d'archéologie orientale'', 1902. * ''La Vie municipale dans l’Égypte romaine'', with P. Collart, J. Lesquier et M. Xonal, 1911. * ''Les Papyrus grecs de Lille'', 2 vols., 1907–1912. * ''L’Égypte gréco-romaine de la conquête d'Alexandre à Dioclétien'', 1932. * ''L’Égypte ptolémaïque'', in Gabriel Hanotaux, ''Histoire de la nation égyptienne'', 1933. * ''L’Égypte dans les premières civilisations méditerranéennes'', with G. Fougères, 1935. * ''L’Égypte alexandrine'', 1940. * ''L'Athènes de Périclès et les destinées de la Grèce'', 1941. * ''À la Grèce. Aux grecs'', 1944. * ''L'impérialisme macédonien et l'hellénisation de l'Orient'', 1926. (translated into English and published as ''Macedonian imperialism and the

Hellenization Hellenization (other British spelling Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonization often led to the Hellenization of indigenous peoples; in the H ...

of the East'', 1928).OCLC Classify
published works

Bibliography

* J. Zeiller, ''Éloge funèbre de M. Pierre Jouguet'', in '' Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres'', 1950 * A. Merlin, '' Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Pierre Jouguet'', ''CRAI'', 1950 * G. Lefebvre, ''Pierre Jouguet'', ''Revue d'égyptologie'' n° 7, 1950 * O. Guéraud, ''Bibliographie des travaux scientifiques de Pierre Jouguet'', ''Bulletin de l'institut français d'archéologie orientale'' n°54, 1954 * Ève Gran-Aymerich, ''Les chercheurs de passé'', Éditions du CNRS, 2007, (p. 898–899)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jouguet, Pierre Academic staff of the University of Paris Academic staff of Cairo University 20th-century French historians French archaeologists French Egyptologists French philologists French papyrologists French hellenists French epigraphers 1869 births 1949 deaths People from Gard Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy