László Kákosy
Dr. László Kákosy was a Hungarian Egyptologist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is one of the most esteemed Hungarian egyptologists and was the author and translator of several books and publications.
He went to the Ferenc Rákóczi High School between 1947–1951 then studied archaeology at Eötvös Loránd University where he received a degree in 1956. He spent the next three years working at the Egyptology department of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts.
In 1960 he started teaching at the Egyptology department of Eötvös University, and from 1972 he was the senior lecturer at the department. In 1974 he received his doctoral degree. He was a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. He started the excavations of the Theban tomb of Djehutimes, and was the leader of the expedition until his death.
Professor Kákosy was married to poet and translator Éva Grigássy.Selected publications
- Ré fiai ; later re-published as
- *Az ókori Egyiptom története és kultúrája
- Varázslás az ókori Egyiptomban
- Egy évezred a Nílus völgyében Memphisz az Óbirodalom korában
- A gyönyörűség dalainak kezdete: óegyiptomi szerelmes versek
- Fény és káosz: A kopt gnósztikus kódexek
- Az alexandriai időisten válogatott tanulmányok, 1957-1998
- The mortuary monument of Djehutymes TT 32
- Egyiptomi és mezopotámiai regék és mondák
