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)

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Literature, art history, and visual media in modern and contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, especially cultures of protest and secrecy

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Professor David Wang FBA

Modern and Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literature; comparative theory of narratology; literature and thought in the making of Chinese modernity

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Professor Nicholas de Lange FBA

Hebrew language & literature: history of Greek-speaking Judaism; Jewish-Christian relations; modern Jewish theology

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