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HEINRICH KARL BRUGSCH (1827-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 679 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEINRICH KARL

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

Brugsch, Mein Leben and mein Wandern; also

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art . EGYPT, section Language and Writing .

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