Nicolas-Christophe Grimal (born 13 November 1948 in

Libourne Libourne (; oc, label= Gascon, Liborna ) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the wine-making capital of northern Gironde and lies near Saint-Ém ...

) is 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 ...

Biography

Nicolas Grimal was born to

Pierre Grimal Pierre Grimal (November 21, 1912, in Paris – November 2, 1996, in Paris) was a French historian, classicist and Latinist. Fascinated by the Greek and Roman civilizations, he did much to promote the cultural inheritance of the classical w ...

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 The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (, which was originally derived from ar, خورنق ''Khurnaq'' "fortified village"), comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Constru ...

. He has held the chair of Egyptology at the

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

since 2000.

Honours

* Prix Grimal le Petit, personnalité de l'année (2022) * Prix Gaston Maspero (1987) * Prix Diane Potier-Boes (1989) * Commander of the

Palmes académiques Palmes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Sir Brian Palmes, English landowner and politician *Sir Guy Palmes, English politician * Brian Palmes MP *Lieutenant General Francis Palmes Lieutenant-General Francis Palmes MP (d ...

* Officer of the

ordre national du Mérite The Ordre national du Mérite (; en, National Order of Merit) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's estab ...

* Knight of the

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

* Member of the

Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigr ...

(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, (English: ''A History of Ancient Egypt'', Blackwell, 1992, ) * ''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

French Egyptologists 1948 births Living people People from Libourne Collège de France faculty Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Members of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Officiers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite {{Egyptologist-stub