Joris Borghouts
{{Short description|Dutch Egyptologist (1939–2018)}}
Joris Frans Borghouts (17 June 1939 – 7 September 2018) was a Dutch Egyptologist. He was Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University from 1985 to 2004.
Career
Borghouts was born in {{illm|Ginneken|nl|Ginneken}} on 17 June 1939.{{cite web|author= |url=http://hoogleraren.leidenuniv.nl/id/276 |title=Joris Frans Borghouts |language=Dutch |publisher=Leiden University |date= |accessdate=4 January 2017}} He obtained his doctorate at Leiden University in 1971 with a dissertation titled: The magical texts of Papyrus Leiden I 348. From 1969 to 1976 he worked as a scientific employee at the Egyptological Seminar of the University of Amsterdam. He returned to Leiden University in 1976.{{cite web|author=O.E. Kaper & O.G. Dercksen |url=https://www.academia.edu/13559560/De_geschiedenis_van_de_egyptologie_aan_Nederlandse_universiteiten |title=Waar de geschiedenis begon: Nederlandse onderzoekers in de ban van spijkerschrift, hiërogliefen en aardewerk |publisher=Netherlands Institute for the Near East |date=2014 |accessdate=4 January 2017 |pages=46–51}}
Borghouts succeeded Jac. J. Janssen as professor and head of the Egyptology department in 1985. Under Borghouts the department reached its maximum size. Around the year 2000 the department became threatened by budget cuts. Borghouts defended the needs of the department and stated that he would see the department become academically irrelevant otherwise.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.mareonline.nl/art/34.art.13.html |title=Kleine Letteren voelen zich bedreigd |language=Dutch |publisher=Mare Online |date=2001 |accessdate=4 January 2017}}{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/bijna-de-mond-gesnoerd~b72cde8b/ |title=Bijna de mond gesnoerd |language=Dutch |publisher=de Volkskrant |date=12 May 2001 |accessdate=4 January 2017}} Borghouts retired in 2004. However, he remained attached to Leiden University and The Netherlands Institute for the Near East.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/staff/borghoutsjf.html |title=Prof. dr. J.F. (Joris) Borghouts (Emeritus) |publisher=Leiden University |date= |accessdate=4 January 2017}}
Borghouts was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.{{cite web|url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/3919 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104122950/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/3919 |title=J.F. Borghouts |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |archive-date= 4 January 2017 |url-status=dead }} He died on 7 September 2018.{{cite web|url=http://www.nino-leiden.nl/message/in-memoriam-prof-dr-jf-borghouts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329210316/http://www.nino-leiden.nl/message/in-memoriam-prof-dr-jf-borghouts|title=In Memoriam Prof. Dr. J.F. Borghouts|website=NINO Leiden|accessdate=24 September 2018|archive-date=29 March 2019}}
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