Alexandre Moret

Alexandre Moret (1868-1938).

Alexandre Moret (French: [mɔʁɛ]; 19 September 1868, Aix-les-Bains – 2 February 1938, Paris) was a French Egyptologist.

Life

From 1906 to 1923 Moret was curator of the Musée Guimet.[1] In 1918 Moret succeeded Emile Amélineau as Director of Studies for the Religions of Egypt within the Fifth Section of the École pratique des hautes études, devoted to religious science.[2]

In 1923 he became Professor of Egyptology at the College de France, and in 1927 a member of the French Academy. In 1926 he delivered the Frazer Lecture at Oxford University, taking the killing of god in Egypt as his theme.[3]

Moret developed an interest in Durkheimian sociology, co-authoring a book on ancient society with Georges Davy.[4]

Works

References

  1. Rarities of the Musée Guimet. Asia Society: distributed by New York Graphic Society. 1974. p. 15. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  2. John I. Brooks III, Institutionalizing Durkeimian Sociology of Religion: the case of the Fifth Section
  3. Alexandre Moret, La mise à mort du Dieu en Égypte, Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1927.
  4. John I Brooks III (2002). "The Durkheimians and the Fifth Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes: An Overview". In Thomas A. Idinopulos; Brian C. Wilson. Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today. BRILL. p. 106. ISBN 978-90-04-12339-7. Retrieved 9 December 2012.

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Preceded by
Gaston Maspero
Chair of Egyptology at
the Collège de France

1923–1938
Position abolished
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