Claude Vandersleyen (26 September 1927 – 7 December 2021) was a Belgian Egyptologist.

Biography

After his secondary studies at the Collège Cardinal Mercier, Vandersleyen earned a degree in Egyptology at the

Université libre de Bruxelles The (French language, French, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has three campuses: the ''Solbosch'' campus (in the City of Brussels and Ixelles), the ''Plain ...

in 1950. He became a professor of Egyptian art and the

Egyptian language The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (; ), is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world ...

at the

Université catholique de Louvain UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally establishe ...

. He assisted in the restoration of the

Tempest Stele The Tempest Stele (alt. Storm Stele) was erected by pharaoh Ahmose I early in the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, . The stele describes a great storm striking Egypt during this time, destroying tombs, temples and pyramids in the Theban region and the work ...

, discovered by French archeologist from 1947 to 1951. Vandersleyen died in

Braine-l'Alleud Braine-l'Alleud (; ; ) is a Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, in the Provinces of Belgium, province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, about south of Brussels. The municipality consists of the following districts: Braine-l'Alleud ...

on 7 December 2021, at the age of 94.

Publications

*''Chronologie des préfets d'Égypte de 284 à 395'' (1962) *''Les guerres d'Amosis, fondateur de la XVIIIe dynastie'' (1971) *"Des obstacles que constituent les cataractes du Nil" (1971) *''Das Alte Ägypten'' (1975) *''L'Égypte et la vallée du Nil, vol. II : De la fin de l'Ancien Empire à la fin du Nouvel Empire'' (1995) *''La guerre de Ramsès II contre les Hittites. Der Hettiterkrieg Ramses'II. Réédition du texte allemand (Vienne, 1939) et traduction française de Claude Vandersleyen'' (1996) *''Ouadj Our. Un autre aspect de la vallée du Nil'' (1999) *"Le relief d’Amenhotep Ier au Louvre B 58 = E 11278" (2004) *''Iahmès Sapaïr fils de Séqénenré (XVIIe dynastie)'' (2005) *"Où est mort le grand Pompée, l’adversaire malheureux de Jules César ?" (2006) *''Le delta et la vallée du Nil. Le sens de ouadj our (wȝd wr)'' (2008) *''Écrits sur l'art égyptien. Textes choisis, réunis et édités par Nadine Cherpion et A.-L. Oosthoek'' (2012) *''Le Rapport d’Ounamon (vers 1065 avant Jésus-Christ) : Analyse d’une mission manquée'' (2013)

References

1927 births 2021 deaths Belgian Egyptologists People from Brussels Academic staff of the Université catholique de Louvain {{Egyptologist-stub