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BRUGSCH, HEINRICH KARL (1827-1894)

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BRUGSCH, HEINRICH KARL (1827-1894) , See also:German Egyptologist, was the son of a Prussian See also:cavalry officer, and was See also:born in the See also:barracks at See also:Berlin, on the 18th of See also:February 1827. He See also:early manifested a See also:great inclination to See also:Egyptian studies, in which, though encouraged by See also:Humboldt, he was almost entirely self-taught. After completing his university course and visiting See also:foreign museums he was sent to See also:Egypt by the Prussian See also:government in 1853, and contracted an intimate friendship with See also:Mariette. On his return he received an See also:appointment in the Berlin museum. In r86o he was sent to See also:Persia on a See also:special See also:mission under See also:Baron Minutoli, travelled over the See also:country, and after Minutoli's See also:death discharged the functions of See also:ambassador. LI 1864 he was See also:consul at See also:Cairo, in 1868 See also:professor at See also:Gottingen, and in 1870 director of the school of Egyptology, founded at Cairo by the See also:khedive. From this See also:post he was unceremoniously dismissed in 1879 by the See also:European controllers of the public revenues, determined to economize at all hazards; and See also:French See also:influence prevented his succeeding his friend Mariette at the Bulaq Museum in 1883. He afterwards resided principally in See also:Germany until his death on the 9th of See also:September 1894, but frequently visited Egypt, took See also:part in another See also:official mission to Persia, and organized an Egyptian exhibit at the See also:Philadelphia Exposition in 1876. He had been made a See also:pasha by the khedive in 1881. He published his autobiography in 1894, concluding with a warm See also:panegyric upon See also:British See also:rule in Egypt. Brugsch's services to Egyptology are most important, particularly in the decipherment of See also:demotic and the making of a vast hieroglyphic-demotic See also:dictionary (1867-1882). See H.

Brugsch, Mein Leben and mein Wandern; also See also:

art. EGYPT, See also:section See also:Language and See also:Writing.

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