Pierre Montet

Jean Pierre Marie Montet (27 June 1885 – 19 June 1966) was a French Egyptologist.

Biography

Montet was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, and began his studies under Victor Loret at the University of Lyon.

He and Jules Barthoux worked in Cairo together in 1911.

He was awarded the Commander of the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre for his work during WWI.

He excavated at Byblos in Lebanon between 1920 and 1924.

During his academic career, he served as Professor of Egyptology at the University of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1948 and then at the Collège de France, Paris, between 1948 and 1956. He died in Paris on 19 June 1966. Byblos et l'Egypte, quatre campagnes de fouilles à Byblos, 1928 La Necropole Royale de Tanis, 1958 Everyday Life in the Days of Ramesses the Great, 1958 Eternal Egypt, 1964 Tanis, douze années de fouilles dans une capitale oubliée du delta Égyptien, Payot, Paris, 1942 ('Tanis, Twelve Years of Excavations in a Forgotten Capital of the Egyptian Delta')