Heinrich Karl Brugsch

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Heinrich Karl Brugsch
Photograph taken c. 1894
Born(1827-02-18)18 February 1827
Died9 September 1894(1894-09-09) (aged 67)
NationalityGerman
ChildrenTheodor Brugsch

Heinrich Karl Brugsch (also Brugsch-Pasha) (18 February 1827 – 9 September 1894) was a German

Egyptologist. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis. He became director of the School of Egyptology at Cairo, producing numerous very valuable works and pioneering the decipherment of Demotic, the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods.[1]

Biography

Heinrich Karl Brugsch was born in Berlin in 1827.[1] He was the son of a Prussian cavalry officer, and was born in the barracks at Berlin. He early manifested a great inclination to Egyptian studies, in which he was almost entirely self-taught.[2] At the age of 16, he applied himself with success to the decipherment of Demotic, which had been neglected since the death of Champollion in 1832. Brugsch's work, Scriptura Ægyptiorum Demotica (Berlin, 1848), containing the results of his studies, appeared while he was a student at the gymnasium. It was followed by his Numerorum Demoticorum Doctrina (1849), and his Sammlung demotischer Urkunden (1850).[1]

His 1848 work brought him to the attention of

privatdocent in the university,[2] and, in 1855, assistant in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin. He visited Egypt again in 1857.[1]

In 1860 he was sent to

Bulaq Museum in 1883. He had been made a pasha by the khedive in 1881.[2]

He afterwards resided principally in Germany until his death in 1894, but frequently visited Egypt,[2] took part in two more official missions to Persia in 1883 (with Prince Frederick Charles[citation needed]) and 1885.[1] He organized an Egyptian exhibit at the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876.[2] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1869.[3]

The tomb stone of Heinrich Karl Brugsch

He published his autobiography in 1894, concluding with a warm

Hieroglyphic-Demotic dictionary (1867–1882).[2]

He was buried in Berlin-

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Brugsch brought some biblical manuscripts from Sinai to Berlin (Minuscule 257, Minuscule 653 and Minuscule 654).[citation needed]

The Brugsch Papyrus, also known as the Greater Berlin Papyrus, in the Berlin Museum (Pap. Berl. 3038), an important ancient Egyptian medical papyrus, bears the name of Heinrich Karl Brugsch. It was studied originally by him.[citation needed]

Brugsch has been described in the context of the Curse of the pharaohs, as was his brother, through his delusional belief he held the post of Lepsius at the University of Berlin while the latter was still alive and though he had never been offered the position.[4]

He was the brother of Egyptologist Émile Brugsch who was responsible for the poorly documented evacuation of the royal mummies at Deir el-Bahari.

Works

Among the most important of his works besides those mentioned are:[citation needed]

  • Reiseberichte aus Ägypten (Travel Diary of Egypt) (1855)
  • Grammaire démotique (Demotic Grammar) (Paris, 1855)
  • Monuments de l'Egypte (Monuments of Egypt) (1857)
  • Geographische Inschriften (Leipzig, 1857–60)[1]
  • Histoire d'Egypte (History of Egypt) (Leipzig, 1859)[1]
  • Recueil des monuments égyptiens (Anthology of Egyptian Monuments) (Leipzig, 1862–63)[1]
  • Reise der königlich Preussischer Gesandtschaft nach Persien (Journey of the Royal Prussian Embassy to Persia) (1862–63)
  • Hieroglyphisch-demotisches Wörterbuch (Hieroglyphic-Demotic Dictionary) (Leipzig, 1867–82)[1]
  • Hieroglyphische Grammatik (Hieroglyphic Grammar) (Leipzig, 1872)[1]
  • L'Exode et les monuments égyptiens (The Exodus and the Egyptian Monuments) (Leipzig, 1875)
  • Dictionnaire géographique de l' ancienne Egypte (Geographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt) (Leipzig, 1877–81)
  • Geschichte Aegyptens (Leipzig, 1877;[1] English trans. "History of Egypt from the Monuments")
  • Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Egypte (Leipzig, 1877–81)[1]
  • Thesaurus Inscriptionum Ægyptiacarum (Thesaurus of Egyptian Inscriptions) (Leipzig, 1883-91)[1]
  • Religion und Mythologie der Aegypter (Religion and Mythology of the Egyptians) (Leipzig, 1887)[1]
  • Die Ägyptologie (Egyptology) (1890)
  • Aus dem Morgenlande, Altes und Neues (From the Orient, Old and New) (1893)
  • Mein Leben und Wandern (My Life and Travels), an autobiography (1894)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Gilman 1905.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Chisholm 1911.
  3. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  4. ^ The Curse of the Mummy", Charlotte Booth, p.192

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