Alexandre Moret

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

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]

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.

^ Rarities of the Musée Guimet. Asia Society: distributed by New York Graphic Society. 1974. p. 15. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
^ John I. Brooks III, Institutionalizing Durkeimian Sociology of Religion: the case of the Fifth Section Archived 2012-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ Alexandre Moret, La mise à mort du Dieu en Égypte, Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1927.
^ John I. Brooks III (2002). "The Durkheimians and the Fifth Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes: An Overview". In Idinopulos, Thomas A.; Wilson, Brian C. (eds.). Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today. BRILL. p. 106. ISBN 978-90-04-12339-7. Retrieved 9 December 2012.

Preceded by Gaston Maspero	Chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France 1923–1938	Position abolished