Chabas

Chabas, FRANÇOIS, a great French Egyptologist, was born January 2, 1817, at Briançon. Though at first engaged in commerce, he found time to become a learned linguist, but it was not till 1851 that he gave himself up to the study of hieroglyphics. The first results of his studies appeared in 1856, followed by a series of invaluable books and papers, elucidative chiefly of two important periods of ancient Egyptian history—the conquest of the country by the Hyksos, and the time of their expulsion. Among the more important of his many books are—Les Pasteurs en Égypte (1868), Histoire de la XIX. Dynastie et spécialement des Temps de l'Exode (1873), and Études sur l'Antiquité historique d'après les Sources égyptiennes (2d ed. 1873). From 1873 to 1877 he edited L'Égyptologie. He died at Versailles, May 17, 1882.