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BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG, See also:CHARLES See also:ETIENNE (1814-1874) , Belgian ethnographer, was See also:born at Bourbourg, near See also:Dunkirk, on the 8th of See also:September 1814. He entered the See also:Roman See also:Catholic priesthood, was See also:professor of ecclesiastical See also:history in the See also:Quebec See also:seminary in 1845, See also:vicar-See also:general at See also:Boston in 1846, and from 1848 to 1863 travelled as a missionary, chiefly in See also:Mexico
and Central See also:America. He gave See also:great See also:attention to Mexican antiquities, published in 1857–1859 a history of Aztec See also:civilization, and from 1861 to 1864 edited a collection of documents in the indigenous See also:languages. In 1863 he announced the See also:discovery of a See also:key to Mexican hieroglyphic See also:writing, but its value is very questionable. In 1864 he was archaeologist to theFrench military expedition in Mexico, and his Monuments anciens du Mexique was published by the See also:French See also:Government in 1866. Perhaps his greatest service was the publication in 1861 of a French See also:translation of the Popol Vuh, a sacred See also:book of the See also:Quiche See also:Indians, together with a Quiche See also:grammar, and an See also:essay on Central See also:American See also:mythology. In 1871 he brought out his Bibliotheque Mexico-Guatemalienne, and in 1869-187o gave the principles of his decipherment of See also:Indian picture-writing in his Manuscrit Troano, etudes sur le systeme graphique et la langue See also:des Mayas. He died at See also:Nice on the 8th of See also:January 1874. His See also:chief merit is his diligent collection of materials; his interpretations are generally fanciful.
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