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Leonard H. Lesko (born 1938) was Chairman of the Department ofEgyptology atBrown University and held theCharles Edwin Wilbour Professorship. In 1961, he received a B.A. inClassics fromLoyola University Chicago, and his masters in 1964. In 1969, he received a Ph.D. in "Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations-Egyptology" at theUniversity of Chicago. Prior to joining the Brown faculty in 1982, he held various teaching positions atUniversity of California-Berkeley.
Lesko is an expert inEgyptian languages including Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian,Demotic, andCoptic. He has also studied theCoffin Texts, theBook of the Dead andDeir el-Medina. Along with his wife, Barbara Lesko, he editedA Dictionary of Late Egyptian.
