Vercoutter, Jean, 1911-2000
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Name (Latin)
Vercoutter, Jean, 1911-2000
Name (Arabic)
فيركوتير، جان، 1911-2000
Other forms of name
Vercoutter, Jean, 1911-
Date of birth
1911
Date of death
2000
Gender
male
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MARC
Sources of Information
- Author's L'Ėgypte ancienne, 1947.
- Jean Vercoutter (1911-2000); country: France; language: French; gender: male; born Lambersart (Nord), 20-01-1911; died Paris, 16-07-2000; archaeologist and Egyptologist; director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, IFAO (1976-1981); director, Antiquities service de Khartoum; preside, Société français d'égyptologie, since 1982; domains: archeology, prehistory, ancient history ( (BnF Data, September 29, 2024) )
- International Association of Egyptologists Web site, Aug. 6, 2002(Jean Vercoutter (1911-2000); b. Jan. 20, 1911)
- National Building Record--The Republic of the Sudan, 1959:second preliminary leaf, Memorandum of agreement between the Antiquities Service and the Department of Architecture, University of Khartoum (Dr. J. Vercoutter, M.A., Litt. D., Commissioner of the Antiquities Service, Republic of the Sudan (typed); reproduced signature, Jean Vercoutter)
- Vercoutter, Jean; French Egyptologist; born 20 January 1911, Lambersart, son of Georges V. [Vercoutter?] and Aline Bertin; studied history and geography at the Sorbonne, and Egyptology at the École Pratique des hautes études; diploma 1939; sent on a mission to Tunisia in 1937 where he studied Egyptian objects; served in World War II, taken prisoner and released in 1940; attached to the Louvre, 1942-45 and IFAO, 1945-50, where he took part in excavations at Karnak and Tod 1947-49; joined CNRS, director of excavations at Dara, 1950-51 for the University of Paris; Docteur ès lettres 1953, Sorbonne; head of the French archaeological mission to the Sudan 1953-55, excavating at Kor 1953 and Sai 1954; director of the Sudan Archaeological Service 1955-60; professor at Lille and director of the French mission in the Sudan 1960-76, where he undertook work at Aksha 1960-62 and Mirgissa 1963-67 for the Nubian rescue campaign; director of IFAO 1977-81; became member of the Académie des Inscriptions 11 May 1984; president of the Société française d'égyptologie 1982-97; honorary president of the Nubian Society 1982; member of the Institut d'Égypte 1976; awarded the Légion d'honneur; died in Paris 16 July 2000 ( (University of Oxford, Griffith Institute Archive website, viewed September 29, 2024) )
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Wikipedia description:
Jean Vercoutter (20 January 1911 – 16 July 2000) was a French Egyptologist. One of the pioneers of archaeological research into Sudan from 1953, he was Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale from 1977 to 1981.
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