Brugsch

Brugsch, HEINRICH KARL, an eminent Egyptologist, born at Berlin, February 18, 1827. At twenty-one he published a Latin treatise on the demotic writing, and gave such promise as soon gained him the favour of King Frederick-William IV., by whose aid he was enabled to visit the museums of Paris, London, Turin, and Leyden. In 1853 he first visited Egypt, and took part in the French archaeologist Mariette's great excavations at Memphis. He was called to the chair of Oriental Languages at Göttingen, but returned to Egypt in 1870 on the invitation of the viceroy to take charge of the School of Egyptology at Cairo with the rank of Bey, becoming pasha in 1881. In 1884 he went to Persia with the German embassy. He died 10th September 1894. Brugsch's works on Egyptology are numerous and of the first value. The chief are Geographische Inschriften altägyptischer Denkmäler (3 vols. 1857-60); Geschichte Egyptens unter den Pharaonen (1877; Eng. trans. 1879); Hieroglyphisch-dcmotisches Wörterbuch (7 vols. 1867-82); Grammaire Hiéroglyphique à l'usage des étudiants (1872); Dictionnaire Géographique de l'Ancienne Égypte (1877-80); Thesaurus inscriptionum Egyptiacarum (1882, et seq.); and Religion und Mythologie der alten Egypten (1884).