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Members of the board of the Queen Elisabeth Egyptological Association
Board : President Comte Arnoul d’ARSCHOT-SCHOONHOVEN Director Alain DELATTRE Director René PREYS Treasurer Luc DELVAUX Secretary Alain MARTIN Executive secretary Athena VAN DER PERRE   Board members Laurent BAVAY Willy CLARYSSE Eric GUBEL Denyse HOMÈS-FREDERICQ Françoise LABRIQUE Luc LIMME Marie-Hélène MARGANNE Katelijn VANDORPE Harco WILLEMS Jean WINAND ...
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The history of the Queen Elisabeth Egyptological Association (AERE), formerly the Queen Elisabeth Egyptological Foundation.
The history of AERE The Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth (AERE), formerly the Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, was officially established on 1 October 1923, on the initiative of Belgian Egyptologist Jean Capart (1877-1947). The main event leading to the formation of the Association was the visit of the Belgian Queen Elisabeth to Tutankhamun’s tomb earlier that year, more precisely on 18 Februar...
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Jean Capart is rightly considered the father of Belgian Egyptology as a scientific and historical discipline. After a long career of almost 50 years in the service of Egyptology, he left an extraordinary archival legacy.
At the centre of it all is the abundant correspondence of Jean Capart and his collaborators and successors. All the big names in 20th-century world Egyptology are there, not to mention many other prominent figures from the Belgian and foreign political, scientific and artistic worlds. In all: thousands of letters (incoming and outgoing) exchanged between the leaders of the association and their regular or occasional ...
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“For only the dead whose name is pronounced, live on” (1)
JEAN CAPART (1877-1947) From childhood, Jean, headstrong but clever, devours all that appears on ancient Egypt. After a doctorate in Law, he studies Egyptology at various European universities, where he befriends the greatest scholars of his time, from the British William Flinders Petrie to the French Gaston Maspero. In 1902, at the age of 25, the University of Liège entrusts him with the first Belgian academic chair...
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We are currently preparing an exhaustive and detailed list of Jean Capart’s published work, but in the meantime, a selection of his most significant publications is given below:
Recueil de monuments égyptiens, 1st series, Brussels, 1902, 102 p., 50 pl.; 2nd series, Brussels, 1905, 118 p. and 50 pl. Les Origines de l’Art et l’Art oriental. I. Les Origines de l’art et l’art égyptien, Brussels, 1903, 63 p.; 2nd, Brussels, undated, 48 p.; II. L’Art oriental hors d’Egypte, Brussels, 1904-1905, 72 p. Les Débuts de l’Art en Egypte, Brussels, Vromant & Cie, 1904, VIII-316 p., 191 pl. and illust...
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