Jozef Vergote Explained
Jozef Antoon Leo Maria Vergote (16 March 1910 – 8 January 1992) was a Flemish Egyptologist and Coptologist.
He was born on 16 March 1910 in Gent, Belgium. He received his doctorate degree in classical philology and oriental languages in 1932 from the Catholic University of Leuven. He continued his studies in Paris, and in Berlin[1] (1934–1937), where he worked under Kurt Heinrich Sethe, Hermann Grapow, and Rudolph Anthes. He taught Coptic and ancient Egyptian at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1938[2] until his retirement in 1978.
He was the editor of Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica. His publications include Joseph en Égypte (1959),[3] Toutankhamon dans les archives hittites (1961), and Grammaire copte (1973–1983).[4]
He died in Heverlee, Belgium on 8 January 1992.
Further reading
- Marcel Vanslembrouck. "Jozef Vergote". In: Lexicon van West-Vlaamse schrijvers, Vol. 6 (Vereniging van Westvlaamse schrijvers; 1989)
Notes and References
- Jo Tollebeek. "De Stand der Professoren: Leven in een andere tijd". In: De stad op de berg (Jo Tollebeek, Liesbet Nys), pp. 111–32 (Leuven University Press; 2021)
- Marleen De Meyer, Jan Vandersmissen, Christophe Verbruggen, Wouter Claes, Luc Delvaux, Marie-Cécile Bruwier, Arnaud Quertinmont, Eugène Warmenbol, Laurent Bavay, Harco Willems. "Pyramids and Progress: Belgian Expansionism and the Making of Egyptology, 1830–1952". In: Towards a History of Egyptology: Proceedings of the Egyptological Section of the 8th ESHS Conference in London, 2018, (Hana Navratilova, Thomas L. Gertzen, Aidan Dodson, Andrew Bednarski, eds), pp. 173–94 (Zaphon Verlag; 2019)
- Ronald A. Geobey (2017). Joseph the Infiltrator, Jacob the Conqueror? Reexamining the Hyksos-Hebrew Correlation. Journal of Biblical Literature 136 (1): 23–37
- Werner Vycichl (1980). Review: Grammaire copte. T. I a: Partie synchronique. T. I b: Partie diachronique. Introd., phonétique et phonologie. Morphologie synthématique (structure des sémantemes) by J[ozef] Vergote. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 130 (3): 632–33
