Alexandre Moret

Alexandre Moret (French: [mɔʁɛ]; 19 September 1868, Aix-les-Bains – 2 February 1938, Paris) was a French Egyptologist.

[1] In 1918 Moret succeeded Émile Amélineau as Director of Studies for the Religions of Egypt within the Fifth Section of the École pratique des hautes études, devoted to religious science.

[2] In 1923 he became Professor of Egyptology at the College de France, and in 1927 a member of the French Academy.

In 1926 he delivered the Frazer Lecture at Oxford University, taking the killing of god in Egypt as his theme.

[3] Moret developed an interest in Durkheimian sociology, co-authoring a book on ancient society with Georges Davy.