thumb|Alexandre Moret (1868-1938). '''Alexandre Moret''' ({{IPA|fr|mɔʁɛ|lang}}; 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.<ref name="France)Society1974">{{cite book|title=Rarities of the Musée Guimet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nezpAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=9 December 2012|year=1974|publisher=Asia Society: distributed by New York Graphic Society|page=15}}</ref> 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.<ref>John I. Brooks III, [http://groups.wfu.edu/ncrsa/papers/johnbrooks.htm Institutionalizing Durkeimian Sociology of Religion: the case of the Fifth Section] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421002523/http://groups.wfu.edu/ncrsa/papers/johnbrooks.htm |date=2012-04-21 }}</ref>
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.<ref>Alexandre Moret, ''La mise à mort du Dieu en Égypte'', Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1927.</ref>
Moret developed an interest in Durkheimian sociology, co-authoring a book on ancient society with Georges Davy.<ref name="IdinopulosWilson2002">{{cite book|author=John I. Brooks III|editor1-last=Idinopulos|editor1-first=Thomas A.|editor2-last=Wilson|editor2-first=Brian C.|title=Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZt_hMv3OqQC&pg=PA106|accessdate=9 December 2012|year=2002|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-12339-7|page=106|chapter=The Durkheimians and the Fifth Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes: An Overview }}</ref>
==Works== [[File:1921 Alexandre Moret.jpg|thumb|Autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon, 1921]] * ''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.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.egyptologues.net/chaire/historique/historique.htm Collège de France list of Chair of Egyptian Archaeology]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moret, Alexandre}} Category:1868 births Category:1938 deaths Category:French Egyptologists