Claude Obsomer | |
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| Born | 3 February 1963  Tournai |
| Education | Doctor of Sciences in Philology |
| Occupation | Egyptologist |
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Claude Obsomer (born in Tournai in 1963), is a Belgian Egyptologist and professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Notre Dame.
Obsomer was born on February 3, 1963, in Tournai. [1]
In 1995, Obsomer became a full professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. [2]
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