Paul Bucher

Paul Émile Bucher (16 May 1887 – 23 May 1966) was a 20th-century French Egyptologist and clergyman.

He worked in the Valley of the Kings, where he deciphered and published inscriptions on the walls of the tombs KV34 (Thutmose III) and KV35 (Amenhotep II).

Early life

Paul Bucher was born on 16 May 1887 in Guebwiller to Joseph Bucher, an accounting manager for Oberelsasses, and Anne-Marie Martz. He attended the local gymnasium school and graduated in July 1908. He attended the Grand Seminary of Strasbourg in late 1908 and was ordained as a priest on 25 July 1913. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver.

Career

Egyptologist Bucher studied Semitic languages, particularly Arabic and Assyrian, and Egyptology at the Imperial University and Institute of Egyptology in Strasbourg. He received a doctorate in philology in 1917, relating to work on papyri 2 and 7 from the National Library of France. between 1 September 1923 and 1 July 1964. He was a priest for 53 years and retired at age 77.

Publications Les Textes des Tombes de Thoutmosis III et d'Aménophis II, MIFAO (Memoirs published by the members of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale), volume 60, Cairo, 1932, 222 pages. Les textes à la fin des première, deuxième et troisième heures du livre "de ce qu'il y a dans la Douat". Textes comparés des tombes de Thoutmosis III, Aménophis II and Séti Ier, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1931, 247 pages. Les hymnes à Sobk-Ra, seigneur de Smenou, des papyrus n°2 and 7 de la Bibliothèque nationale de Strasbourg, P. Geuthner, 1930, 50 pages. with Pierre Montet, Un dieu cananéen à Tanis : Houroun de Ramsès, Numéro 2 de Revue biblique, J. Gabalda, 1935, 165 pages. Les Commencements des Psaumes LI to XCIII: Inscription d'une tombe de Ḳaṣr eṣ Ṣaijād