Antonio Loprieno#
| Membership Number: | 4630 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://wwz.unibas.ch/personen/profil/person/loprieno/abteilung/institutions |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Full professor of History of Institutions at the University of Basel (CH)
- 2000 Full professor of Egyptology at the University of Basel (CH)
- 2006 - 2015 Rector of the University of Basel (CH)
- 1989 - 2000 Full professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Dept of Near Eastern Languages *1984 - 1989 Associate professor at the University of Perugia (IT)
Fields of Scholarship
- Egyptology
- Semitic Linguistics
- Ancient languages of the Near East
- Ancient Egyptian Literature
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Presidency of the Swiss Academy of Arts and Science
- 2017 Presidency of the Austrian Science Board, Vienna
- 2016 Dr. h. c. University of Strasbourg (F)
- 2000 Visiting professor at École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris
- 1998 Visiting professor at Heidelberg University
- 1995 Visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
