Short answers, pulled from the story.
Joris Frans Borghouts entered the world on the 17th of June 1939 in Ginneken. He later earned his doctorate from Leiden University in 1971 with a dissertation on The magical texts of Papyrus Leiden I 348.
Joris Borghouts worked as a scientific employee at the Egyptological Seminar of the University of Amsterdam from 1969 to 1976 before returning to Leiden University in 1976. He served as professor and head of the Egyptology department from 1985 until his retirement in 2004.
The Egyptology department expanded rapidly during the tenure of Joris Borghouts and reached its maximum size by the turn of the millennium. This growth included increased physical space, academic resources, and student numbers while facing budget cuts around the year 2000.
Joris Borghouts retired from his professorship at Leiden University in 2004 and joined The Netherlands Institute for the Near East as a research fellow that same year. He remained attached to the institution and continued scholarly work until his death on the 7th of September 2018 in Leiden.
Joris Borghouts was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. His legacy endures through the many scholars he trained and the texts he studied including The magical texts of Papyrus Leiden I 348.