Borghouts was born in Ginneken [nl] on 17 June 1939.^[1] 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.^[2]

Borghouts succeeded Jac. J. Janssen as professor and head of the Egyptology department in 1985. Under Borghouts the department reached its maximum size.^[2] 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.^[3]^[4] Borghouts retired in 2004.^[1] However, he remained attached to Leiden University and The Netherlands Institute for the Near East.^[2]^[5]

Borghouts was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.^[6] He died on 7 September 2018.^[7]

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