Nicolas Grimal

Nicolas-Christophe Grimal(born 13 November 1948 inLibourne) is a FrenchEgyptologist.

Biography

Nicolas Grimal was born toPierre Grimalin 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 theFrench Institute of Oriental Archeology in Cairo.Since 1990, he has been the scientific director of the Franco-Egyptian Centre for study of the temples ofKarnak.He has held the chair of Egyptology at theCollège de Francesince 2000.

Honours

• Prix Grimal le Petit, personnalité de l'année (2022)
• Prix Gaston Maspero (1987)
• Prix Diane Potier-Boes (1989)
• Commander of thePalmes académiques
• Officer of theordre national du Mérite
• Knight of theLégion d'honneur
• Member of theAcadémie des inscriptions et belles-lettres(2006).
• Member of theAcadémie 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,ISBN2-213-02191-0(English:A History of Ancient Egypt,Blackwell, 1992,ISBN0631174729)
• 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.