Jean Maspero (20 December 1885 – 17 February 1915) was an early 20th-century French
papyrologist
Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...
. He was the son of
egyptologist
Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religiou ...
Gaston Maspero
Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist known for popularizing the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper.
Maspero's son, Henri Maspero, became a notable sinologist and scholar of East Asia.
...
and his wife ''née'' Louise d'Estournelles de Constant (Sister of
Paul d'Estournel de Constant, winner of the 1909
Nobel Peace Prize
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), and brother of
Henri and
Georges Maspero
René Gaston Georges Maspero (21 August 1872 – 21 September 1942) was a French sinologist.
He was the son of egyptologist Gaston Maspero and half brother of sinologist Henri Maspero.
A colonial governor of French Indochina, he was appointed ...
.
Works
*1912:
Organisation militaire de l'Égypte byzantine', In-8, 157 p. (Paris, )
*1914:
Horapollon et la fin du paganisme égyptien', Bulletin de l‘
Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale
The Institut français d'archéologie orientale (or IFAO), also known as the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, is a French research institute based in Cairo, Egypt, dedicated to the study of the archaeology, history and language ...
, n° 11, (p. 163–195).
*1916:
Papyrus grecs d'époque byzantine', Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes, imprimerie de l‘Institut français d'archéologie orientale,
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*1932:
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Bibliography
* ''Bibliographie Altagypten 1822-1946'', Christine Beinlich-Seeber, Harrassowitz 1998
* ''Ostraca grecs et coptes des fouilles de Jean Maspero à Baouit'', O.BawitIFAO 1-67 et O.Nancy (Bibl. d'Études Coptes, 17). Boud'hors Anne, Cairo, 2004.
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French papyrologists
Writers from Paris
1885 births
1915 deaths
French military personnel killed in World War I