Joris Borghouts

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 Ginneken on 17 June 1939. 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.

Borghouts succeeded as professor and head of the Egyptology department in 1985. Under Borghouts the department reached its maximum size. Borghouts retired in 2004.

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