{{Short description|Swedish Egyptologist}} thumb|Plaque on tombstone of Karl Piehl '''Karl Piehl''' (1853–1904) was a Swedish Egyptologist.

==Biography== He was born in Stockholm. He was docent in Egyptian languages at Uppsala University in 1881, became director of the Egyptian Museum in 1889, and in 1893 was appointed to a newly endowed chair of Egyptology. Three years afterwards Piehl became editor of the ''Sphinx'', a periodical of Egyptian archaeology.

==Works== * ''Petites études égyptologiques'' (1881) * ''Dictionnaire du papyrus Harris No. 1'' (1882) * ''Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques'' (1884 sqq.)

==References== * {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Piehl, Karl|short=x|vb=1}}

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