Pahor Labib
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Pahor Labib
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| Born |
September 19, 1905 Ein Shams, Egypt |
| Died |
May 7, 1994 (aged 88) Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Fields | Egyptology, Coptology |
| Institutions | Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt |
| Alma mater |
Frederick William University, Berlin, Germany University of Cairo |
| Known for | study and publishing of Nag Hammadi library Gnostic Papyri |
| Influenced | Sir Percy Newberry and Hermann Grapow |
| Notable awards | High Cross from West Germany, 1976 World Decoration of Denmark, 1963 |
Pahor Labib (also Bahour; Arabic: باهور لبيب; born 19 September 1905 at Ain Shams, Cairo; died 7 May 1994) was Director of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt, from 1951 to 1965 and one of the world leaders in Egyptology and Coptology.
Labib was born in 1905 in Cairo. His father was Cladius Labib, also an Egyptologist and Coptologist who was one of the first Egyptians to learn Hieroglyphics from the French Egyptologists in Egypt and who compiled a Coptic-Arabic dictionary. He grew up in Ain Shams, a suburb of Cairo, where his father had a house with a few acres of land (13 "feddans") that were used to cultivate fruits and vegetables.
For preparatory school Labib went to the "Great Coptic School" and then to Khedivieh Secondary School, both in Cairo. After Labib received his "Bachaloria", he entered the Faculty of Law. However, the Faculty of Archeology had recently opened and he joined this as well. At the final year, exams for both studies clashed, so he choose to sit the Archeology final which he passed with distinction.
Labib was sent for higher studies to Berlin, Germany in 1930. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Frederick William University in 1934. The subject of his doctoral degree was King Ahmose I, founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who expelled the Hyksos from Egypt. Labib showed that the Hyksos stayed in Egypt for 150 years (previously suggested periods were much longer) and that they came from Canaan. He was the first Egyptian to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology. His teachers in Germany included Herman Grapow (with whom he stayed in touch till the latter's death in 1967) and Kurt Heinrich Sethe.
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