Nicolas Grimal

Nicolas-Christophe Grimal (born in Libourne on 13 November 1948) is a French Egyptologist.

Biography

Nicolas Grimal was born to Pierre Grimal in 1948. After his Agrégation in Classics in 1971, he obtained a PhD in 1984. He has been a professor at the Sorbonne since 1988.

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. He has held the chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France since 2000.^[1]

Honours

• Prix Gaston Maspero (1987)
• Prix Diane Potier-Boes (1989)
• Officer of the Palmes académiques
• Knight of the ordre national du Mérite
• Knight of the Légion d'honneur
• Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (2006).

Works

• Histoire de l'Égypte ancienne, Fayard, Paris, 1988, ISBN 2-213-02191-0 (English: A History of Ancient Egypt, Blackwell, 1992, ISBN 0631174729)
• 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.

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