Karl Piehl

Karl Piehl (1853–1904) 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 (1881)
 * Dictionnaire du papyrus Harris No. 1 (1882)
 * Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques (1884 sqq.)