Joris Frans Borghouts (17 June 1939 – 7 September 2018) was a Dutch Egyptologist. He was Professor of EgyptologyatLeiden University from 1985 to 2004.
Borghouts was born in Ginneken [nl] on 17 June 1939.[1] He obtained his doctorate at Leiden University in 1971 with a dissertation titled: The magical texts of Papyrus Leiden I 348. From 1969 to 1976 he worked as a scientific employee at the Egyptological Seminar of the University of Amsterdam. He returned to Leiden University in 1976.[2]
Borghouts succeeded Jac. J. Janssen as professor and head of the Egyptology department in 1985. Under Borghouts the department reached its maximum size.[2] Around the year 2000 the department became threatened by budget cuts. Borghouts defended the needs of the department and stated that he would see the department become academically irrelevant otherwise.[3][4] Borghouts retired in 2004.[1] However, he remained attached to Leiden University and The Netherlands Institute for the Near East.[2][5]
Borghouts was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.[6] He died on 7 September 2018.[7]