Claude Vandersleyen (26 September 1927 – 7 December 2021) was a Belgian Egyptologist.

Biography

After his secondary studies at the Collège Cardinal Mercier, Vandersleyen earned a degree in Egyptology at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1950. He became a professor of Egyptian art and the

Egyptian language The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead language, dead Afroasiatic languages, Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large Text corpus, corpus of surviving texts which were made acces ...

at the

Université catholique de Louvain The Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It ...

. He assisted in the restoration of the

Tempest Stele The Tempest Stele (alt. Storm Stele) was erected by pharaoh Ahmose I early in the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, . The stele describes a great storm striking Egypt during this time, destroying tombs, temples and pyramids in the Theban region and the wor ...

, discovered by French archeologist from 1947 to 1951. Vandersleyen died in

Braine-l'Alleud Braine-l'Alleud (; nl, Eigenbrakel ; wa, Brinne-l'-Alou) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, about south of Brussels. The municipality consists of the following districts: Braine-l'Alleud (includ ...

on 7 December 2021, at the age of 94.

Publications

*''Chronologie des préfets d'Égypte de 284 à 395'' (1962) *''Les guerres d'Amosis, fondateur de la XVIIIe dynastie'' (1971) *"Des obstacles que constituent les cataractes du Nil" (1971) *''Das Alte Ägypten'' (1975) *''L'Égypte et la vallée du Nil, vol. II : De la fin de l'Ancien Empire à la fin du Nouvel Empire'' (1995) *''La guerre de Ramsès II contre les Hittites. Der Hettiterkrieg Ramses'II. Réédition du texte allemand (Vienne, 1939) et traduction française de Claude Vandersleyen'' (1996) *''Ouadj Our. Un autre aspect de la vallée du Nil'' (1999) *"Le relief d’Amenhotep Ier au Louvre B 58 = E 11278" (2004) *''Iahmès Sapaïr fils de Séqénenré (XVIIe dynastie)'' (2005) *"Où est mort le grand Pompée, l’adversaire malheureux de Jules César ?" (2006) *''Le delta et la vallée du Nil. Le sens de ouadj our (wȝd wr)'' (2008) *''Écrits sur l'art égyptien. Textes choisis, réunis et édités par Nadine Cherpion et A.-L. Oosthoek'' (2012) *''Le Rapport d’Ounamon (vers 1065 avant Jésus-Christ) : Analyse d’une mission manquée'' (2013)

References

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