Nicolas Grimal is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 Egyptologist

Egyptology

Egyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...

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Biography

Nicolas Grimal was born to Pierre Grimal

Pierre Grimal

Pierre Grimal was a French historian, classicist and Latinist. Fascinated by the Roman civilization, he did much to promote the cultural inheritance of ancient Rome, both among specialists and the general public.-Biography:Admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1933, and receiving a third in...

 in 1948. After his Agrégation in Classics in 1971, he obtained a PhD in 1984. He has been a professor at the Sorbonne since 1988.

From 1989 to 1999, he headed the French Institute of Oriental Archeology in Cairo

Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale

.The Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale , 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 languages of the various periods of Egypt's civilisation.The IFAO is...

. Since 1990, he has been the scientific director of the Franco-Egyptian Centre for study of the temples of Karnak

Karnak

The Karnak Temple Complex—usually called Karnak—comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings, notably the Great Temple of Amun and a massive structure begun by Pharaoh Ramses II . Sacred Lake is part of the site as well. It is located near Luxor, some...

. He has held the chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France

Collège de France

The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...

 since 2000.

Honours

• Prix Gaston Maspero (1987)
• Prix Diane Potier-Boes (1989)
• Officer of the Palmes académiques
  Palmes académiques
  The Ordre des Palmes Académiques is an Order of Chivalry of France for academics and cultural and educational figures...
  
  
• Knight of the ordre national du Mérite
  Ordre National du Mérite
  The Ordre national du Mérite is an Order of State awarded by the President of the French Republic. It was founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle...
  
  
• Knight of the Légion d'honneur
  Légion d'honneur
  The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
  
  
• Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
  Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
  The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a French learned society devoted to the humanities, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the Institut de France.-History:...
  
  (2006).

Works

• Leçon inaugurale, faite le mardi 10 mars 2000, Collège de France, Chaire de civilisation pharaonique, archéologie, philologie, histoire, Collège de France, Paris, 2000 ;
• Leçon inaugurale, faite le mardi 24 octobre 2000, Collège de France, Paris, 2000.