Leonard H. Lesko

Leonard H. Lesko

Leonard H. Lesko was the Chairman of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University and held the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professorship. In 1961, he received a B.A. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago, and his masters in 1964. In 1969, he received a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations-Egyptology at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the Brown faculty in 1982, he held various teaching positions at University of California-Berkeley.

Lesko is an expert in Egyptian languages including Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic. He has also studied the Coffin Texts, The Book of the Dead and Deir el-Medina. Along with his wife, Barbara Lesko, he edited 'A Dictionary of Late Egyptian.'

Publications

*"King Tut’s Wine Cellar" (1977)
*"Egyptological Studies in Honor of Richard A. Parker: Presented on the Occasion of His 78th Birthday" (editor) (1986)
*"A Dictionary of Late Egyptian" (1990)

References

* [http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Egyptology/llesko.html Brown University page]
* [http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/04-99/04-28-99/b06li058.htm Richard N. Ostling article on Lesko]
* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/lesko_leonard.html Leonard Lesko by Matt Lutgen]


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