Background
Kákosy, László was born on August 15, 1932 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Károly and Ilona (Vámos Ilona) Kákosy.
Kákosy, László was born on August 15, 1932 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Károly and Ilona (Vámos Ilona) Kákosy.
He went to the Ferenc Rákóczi High School between 1947–1951 then studied archaeology at Eötvös Loránd University where he received a degree in 1956.
He is one of the most esteemed Hungarian egyptologists and was the author and translator of several books and publications. He spent the next three years working at the Egyptology department of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts. In 1960 he started teaching at the Egyptology department of Eötvös University, and from 1972 he was the senior lecturer at the department.
In 1974 he received his doctoral degree (thesis title: Világnézet és valláspolitika az egyiptomi Újbirodalom idején és a későkorban – "Worldview and religious politics during the Egyptian New Kingdom and Late Period").
He started the excavations of the Theban tomb of Djehutimes (TT32), and was the leader of the expedition until his death. Professor Kákosy was married to poet and translator Éva Grigássy (1925–2002).
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities]
He was a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (from 1998. The title of his inaugural speech was Théba a Ptolemaiosz- és a római korban – "Thebes in the Ptolemaic and Roman times") and of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Married Éva Grigássy, 1968.