Jorge Roberto Ogdon Aquino
A Brief Biography
Professor Ogdon was both an Egyptologist and an anthropologist. He served as Director of the Centro del Estudio del Antiguo Egipto (Center for the Study of Ancient Egypt) from 1995 until the time of his death. He was the founder of the Centro de Investigaciones Egiptológicas de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Center for Egyptological Research) and served as its director from 1978-1988. Prior to that, he had been Secretary-General of the Instituto de EgiptologIa de la Argentina (Egyptological Institute of Argentina) and Editor of Aegyptus Antiquus (Buenos Aires) from 1974-1978. He was also Scientific Editor of the Spanish-language magazine, Revista de EgiptologIa-Isis in Malaga, Spain, during 2001-2003.
In the course of his career, Dr. Ogdon participated in several archaeological excavations, including one on Easter Island (Chile) in 1974, through the University of California, and one in Paraguay in the Yaciretá Dam Reserve in 1979, sponsored by the Casa de Independencia (House of Independence) in Asunción. He was a member of the investigative team led by Claudio Neumann researching the design of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza during 1987-88.
Dr. Ogdon attended numerous Egyptological conferences around the world, including Cairo in 1976, Grenoble in 1979, Ljubljana in 1979, and Paris in 1987. He regularly contributed to a myriad of well-known Egyptological journals from all over the world, including Discussions in Egyptology (Oxford), Göttinger Miszellen (Gotinga), The Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (Toronto-Mississauga), The Journal of Egyptian Archeology (London), Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar (New York), Cahiers Caribéens d'Égyptologie (Paris-Guyana), Magazine of the Society of Egyptology (Montevideo), Varia Aegyptiaca (San Antonio, Texas), Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (Leipzig), Aegyptus Antiquus (Buenos Aires), Apuntes de Egiptología (both printed and on the Internet), (Buenos Aires-Asunción), and Revista de Egiptología-Isis (Malaga).
A great fan of the American writer H. P. Lovecraft, Dr. Ogdon was inspired to write similar horror fiction. Some of his many stories (in Spanish) can be found here. He was also a talented artist.
He lived in Asunción, Republic of Paraguay, at the time of his death.