Jozef Antoon Leo Maria Vergote (1910–1992) was a Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 Egyptologist and Coptologist. He was born on 16 March 1910 in Gent

Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

, Belgium

Belgium

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. He received his doctorate degree in classical philology and oriental languages in 1932 from the Catholic University of Leuven

Catholic University of Leuven

The Catholic University of Leuven, or of Louvain, was the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. The university was founded in 1425 as the University of Leuven by John IV, Duke of Brabant and approved by a Papal bull by Pope Martin V.During France's occupation of Belgium in the...

. He continued his studies in Paris

Paris

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, and in Berlin

Berlin

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 (1934–1937), where he worked under Kurt Heinrich Sethe

Kurt Heinrich Sethe

Kurt Heinrich Sethe was a noted German Egyptologist and philologist from Berlin. He was a student of Adolf Erman...

, Hermann Grapow

Hermann Grapow

Hermann Grapow was a German Egyptologist.-Works:*Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, 7 Bände, Berlin, 1925 ff.*Anatomie und Physiologie, Berlin, 1954...

, and Rudolf Anthes. He taught Coptic

Coptic language

Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...

 and ancient Egyptian

Egyptian language

Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known. Egyptian was spoken until the late 17th century AD in the...

 at the Catholic University of Leuven from 1938 until he retired in 1978. He was the editor of Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica and published widely. Among this most important publications are Joseph en Égypte (1959), Toutankhamon dans les archives hittites (1961), and Grammaire copte (1973–1983). He died in Heverlee

Heverlee

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, Belgium on 8 January 1992.