piehl, karl fredrik (1853-1904), Swedish Egyptologist.
He studied Egyptology privately and worked in various continental museums before joining J. Maspero in Paris in 1878. He was appointed professor of Egyptology at Uppsala in 1893; in 1889 he had founded there a museum of Egyptian antiquities, which from 1895 bore the name Victoria Museum. Piehl also founded the journal Sphinx in 1896. In the field of Coptic studies, he left behind several brief studies. He died at Sigtuna, near Uppsala.