Karl Piehl

Karl Piehl was a Swedish Egyptologist.

Biography

He was born in Stockholm. He was docent in Egyptian languages at Uppsala University in 1881, became director of the Egyptian Museum in 1889, and in 1893 was appointed to a newly endowed chair of Egyptology. Three years afterwards Piehl became editor of the Sphinx, a periodical of Egyptian archaeology.

Works

Petites études égyptologiques Dictionnaire du papyrus Harris No. 1

''Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques''