Dominic Montserrat
Dominic Montserrat | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 January 1964 |
| Died | 23 September 2004 (aged 40) London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Durham University University College London |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Egyptology |
| Institutions | University of Warwick The Open University |
Dominic Alexander Sebastian Montserrat (2 January 1964 – 23 September 2004) was a British egyptologist and papyrologist.
Early life and education
[edit]Dominic Alexander Sebastian Montserrat was born in Slough on 2 January 1964. He was born with hemophilia, a genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to stop bleeding.[1]
Montserrat studied Egyptology at Durham University and received his PhD in Classics at University College London, specializing in Greek, Coptic and Egyptian Papyrology.[1]
Academic career
[edit]From 1992 to 1999 he taught Classics at the University of Warwick. His increasingly deteriorating health led Montserrat to resign from teaching in 1999 and take up a research post in the classics department of The Open University. On 23 September 2004, he died from the effects of his illness at the age of forty.[1][2]
Despite his ill health Montserrat was remarkably productive in his brief scholarly life: he was a member of the committee of the Egypt Exploration Society, for which he published regularly, and curated the award-winning travelling exhibition Ancient Egypt: Digging For Dreams of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. A wider audience saw him co-presenting the TV documentary series The Egyptian Detectives, a production of National Geographic Channel and Channel Five.[1][2]
In his 1996 debut book Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt Montserrat presented a broad study of ancient sexuality and its cultural manifestations in Greco-Roman Egypt.[3] His second book focused on the life and times of the "heretic pharaoh" Akhenaten (2000), whose long afterlife as an object of modern interpretations and appropriations he critically analyzed.[1]
Selected works
[edit]- Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt, London & New York: Kegan Paul, 1996, ISBN 0-7103-0530-3
- From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views. A Source History, London & New York: Routledge, 1996 (co-editor), ISBN 0-415-09335-X
- Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, London & New York: Routledge, 2000, ISBN 0-415-18549-1
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Stevenson, Jane (13 October 2004). "Dominic Montserrat. Egyptologist who lived on borrowed time". The Independent. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ a b "Dominic Montserrat. Egyptologist and writer". The Guardian. 10 November 2004. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ "Dominic Montserrat, Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 10 June 1998. Archived from the original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
External links
[edit]- Association Internationale de Papyrologues: In memoriam Dominic Montserrat 1964–2004
