Etienne Drioton

The canon Etienne Drioton , born on November 21st, 1889 in Nancy, dead on January 17th, 1961 in Paris, is a Egyptologist French.

Biography

  • In 1905, it enters to the seminar of Nancy from where it leaves priest in 1912;

  • Departure with Rome to follow more specialized studies;
  • Doctor of philosophy of the Academy of St Thomas;
  • Doctor of Divinity of the Gregorian university;
  • In 1914, laid off biblical be-Sciences of the biblical pontifical commission to the the Vatican;
  • In 1918, graduate of the Private school of the Eastern languages of the Catholic Institute of Paris for the Egyptian and the Copte;
  • In 1919, professor of Egyptian philology and copte at the Catholic Institute;
  • In 1926, assistant of Boreux to the Louvre;
  • In 1929, operations manager epigraphic near the French Institute;
  • Participation in the excavations of Médamoud;
  • In 1936, named by the Egyptian government
    • directing of the Antiquities of Egypt to replace Pierre Lacau, station occupied during sixteen years,
    • professor at the institute of Egyptology of the university Fouad {{Ier}} with the Cairo;
It preserves these functions until 1952;
  • In 1952, named
    • preserving as a chief with the museum of Louvre,
    • directing with CNRS;
  • In 1957, professor with the Collège de France

Distinctions

  • Officer of the Legion of Honor

  • Egyptian Decorations and Iranian women

Publications

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