Professor Henry Smith FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1985
Year of death
2024

Last post

University College London Emeritus Professor of Egyptology

Past appointments

University College London Edwards Professor of Egyptology

1970 - 1986

University College London Honorary Curator, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

1963 - 1970

Christ's College University of Cambridge Budge Fellow in Egyptology

1955 - 1963

University of Cambridge Lecturer in Egyptology

1954 - 1963

Publications

The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara: the Archaeological Report 3 vols, (2006)

The Anubieion at Saqqara I: the settlement and the temple precinct (1988)

Saqqara demotic papyri I (1983)

The fortress of Buhen (2 vols) (1976, 1979)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger

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Professor Manfred Woidich FBA

The descriptive dialectology, dialect geography of the Arabic language; historical linguistics of Arabic, in particular syntactic and semantic issues in Egyptian dialects. Teaching Arabic as a foreign language, colloquial first

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Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA

Indian philosophy focusing on Sanskrit and Pali, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics and phenomenology; classical Indian religions, especially Hindu theology in Sanskrit and Tamil, and comparative Hindu-Christian studies

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