Alexandre Moret

Alexandre Moret (French: [mɔʁɛ]; 19 September 1868, Aix-les-Bains – 2 February 1938, Paris) was a French Egyptologist.

Alexandre Moret (1868-1938).

Life

From 1906 to 1923 Moret was curator of the Musée Guimet.^[1] In 1918 Moret succeeded Émile Amélineau as Director of Studies for the Religions of Egypt within the Fifth Section of the École pratique des hautes études, devoted to religious science.^[2]

In 1923 he became Professor of Egyptology at the College de France, and in 1927 a member of the French Academy. In 1926 he delivered the Frazer Lecture at Oxford University, taking the killing of god in Egypt as his theme.^[3]

Moret developed an interest in Durkheimian sociology, co-authoring a book on ancient society with Georges Davy.^[4]

Works

Autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon, 1921

• Du caractère religieux de la royauté pharaonique, 1902.
• Le rituel du culte divin journalier en Égypte, d'après les papyrus de Berlin et les textes du temple de Séti 1er, à Abydos , 1902.
• Études sur le calendrier égyptien, 1907.
• Au temps des Pharaons, 1908. Translated by Madame Moret as In the time of the Pharaohs, 1911.
• Chronologie égyptienne, 1912.
• Rois et dieux d'Égypte, 1911. Translated by Madame Moret as Kings and Gods of Egypt, 1912.
• Mystères égyptiens, 1913.
• Sarcophages de l'époque bubastite à l'époque saïte, 1913
• (with Georges Davy) Des clans aux empires; l'organisation sociale chez les primitifs et dans l'Orient ancien. Translated by V. Gordon Childe as From Tribe to Empire: social organization among primitives and in the Ancient East, 1926
• Le Nil et la civilisation égyptienne, 1926. Translated by M. R. Dobie as The Nile and Egyptian civilization, 1927.
• Histoire de l'Orient, 1936.