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See also:LEPSIUS, KARL See also:RICHARD (1810–1884) , See also:German Egyptologist, was See also:born at See also:Naumburg-am-See also:Saale on the 23rd of See also:December 181o, and in 1823 was sent to the " Schulpforta " school near Naumburg, where he came under the See also:influence of See also:Professor See also:Lange. In 1829 he entered the university of See also:Leipzig, and one See also:year later that of See also:Gottingen, where, under the influence of Otfried See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller, he finally decided to devote himself to the archaeological See also:side of See also:philology. From Gottingen he proceeded to See also:Berlin, where he graduated in 1833 as See also:doctor with the thesis De tabulis Eugubinis. In the same year he proceeded to study in See also:Paris, and was commissioned by the duc de See also:Luynes to collect material from the See also:Greek and Latin writers for his See also:work on the
xvi. 16weapons of the ancients. In 1834 he took the See also:Volney See also:prize with his Paldograptie See also:ass Mittel der Sprachforschwng. Befriended by See also:Bunsen and See also:Humboldt, Lepsius threw himself with See also:great ardour into Egyptological studies, which, since the See also:death of See also:Champollion in 1832, had attracted no See also:scholar of See also:eminence and See also:weight. Here Lepsius found an ample See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field for his See also:powers. After four years spent in visiting the See also:Egyptian collections of See also:Italy, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:England, he returned to See also:Germany, where Humboldt and Bunsen See also:united their influence to make his projected visit to See also:Egypt a scientific expedition with royal support. For three years Lepsius and his party explored the whole of the region in which monuments of See also:ancient Egyptian and Ethiopian occupation are found, from the See also:Sudan above See also:Khartum to the Syrian See also:coast. At the end of 1845 they returned See also:home, and the results of the expedition, consisting of casts, drawings and squeezes of See also:inscriptions and scenes, maps and plans collected with the utmost thoroughness, as well as antiquities and papyri, far surpassed expectations. In 1846 he married Elisabeth See also:Klein, and his See also:appointment to a professorship in Berlin University in the following See also:August afforded him the leisure necessary for the completion of his work. In 1859 the twelve volumes of his vast Denkmaler aus Agypten and Athiopien were finished, supplemented later by a See also:text prepared from the See also:note-books of the expedition; they comprise its entire archaeological, palaeographical and See also:historical results. • In 1866 Lepsius again went to Egypt, and discovered the famous See also:Decree of Tanis or Table of See also:Canopus, an inscription of the same See also:character as the See also:Rosetta See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
Stone, in hieroglyphic, See also:demotic and Greek. In 1873 he was appointed keeper of the Royal Library, Berlin, which, like the Berlin Museum, owes much to his care. About ten years later he was appointed Geheimer Oberregierungsrath. He died at Berlin on the loth of See also:July 1884. Besides the See also:colossal Denkmaler and other publications of texts such as the Todtenbuch der Agypter (See also:Book of the Dead, 1842) his other See also:works, amongst which may be specially named his Konigsbuch der Agypter (1858) and Chronologie der Agypter (1849), are characterized by a quality of permanence that is very remarkable in a subject of such rapid development as Egyptology. In spite of his scientific training in philology Lepsius See also:left behind few See also:translations of inscriptions or discussions of the meanings of words: by preference he attacked historical and archaeological problems connected with the ancient texts, the See also:alphabet, the metrology, the names of metals and minerals, the See also:chronology, the royal names. On the other See also:hand one of his latest works, the Nubische Grammatik (188o), is an elaborate See also:grammar of the then little-known Nubian See also:language, preceded by a linguistic See also:sketch of the See also:African See also:continent. Throughout his See also:life he profited by the See also:gift of attaching to himself the right men, whether as patrons or, like Weidenbach and Stern, as assistants. Lepsius was a See also:fine specimen of the best type of German scholar.
See Richard Lepsius, by Georg See also:Ebers (New See also:York, 1887), and See also:art. EGYPT, See also:section Exploration and See also:Research.
End of Article: LEPSIUS, KARL RICHARD (1810–1884)
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