KARL See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD See also:

• KARL RICHARD LEPSIUS (1810–1884)

LEPSIUS (1810–1884)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German Egyptologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• NAUMBURG

Naumburg-am-See also:

• SAALE

Saale on the 23rd of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 181o, and in 1823 was sent to the " Schulpforta " school near Naumburg, where he came under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor See also:

• LANGE, ANNE FRANCOISE ELIZABETH (1772—1816)
• LANGE, ERNST PHILIPP KARL (1813—1899)
• LANGE, FRIEDRICH ALBERT (1828—1875)
• LANGE, JOHANN PETER (1802-1884)

Lange . In 1829 he entered the university of See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, and one See also:

• YEAR

year later that of See also:

• GOTTINGEN

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
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology . From Gottingen he proceeded to See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, where he graduated in 1833 as See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor with the thesis De tabulis Eugubinis . In the same year he proceeded to study in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and was commissioned by the duc de See also:

• LUYNES

Luynes to collect material from the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and Latin writers for his See also:

• WORK

work on the xvi . 16weapons of the ancients . In 1834 he took the See also:

• VOLNEY, CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS CHASSEBCEUF, COMTE DE (1757-1820)

Volney See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize with his Paldograptie See also:

• ASS (O.E. assa; Lat. asinus)
• ASS, FEAST OF THE

ass Mittel der Sprachforschwng . Befriended by See also:

• BUNSEN, CHRISTIAN CHARLES JOSIAS, BARON VON (1791-186o,)
• BUNSEN, ROBERT WILHELM VON (1811-1899)

Bunsen and See also:

• HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER, BARON
• HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON (1767-1835)

Humboldt, See also:

• LEPSIUS, KARL RICHARD (1810–1884)

Lepsius threw himself with See also:

• GREAT

great ardour into Egyptological studies, which, since the See also:

• DEATH

death of See also:

• CHAMPOLLION, JEAN FRANCOIS (1790–1832)

Champollion in 1832, had attracted no See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar of See also:

• EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

eminence and See also:

• WEIGHT

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, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers . After four years spent in visiting the See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian collections of See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

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
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, he returned to See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, where Humboldt and Bunsen See also:

• UNITED

united their influence to make his projected visit to See also:

• EGYPT

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
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Egyptian and Ethiopian occupation are found, from the See also:

• SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan above See also:

• KHARTUM

Khartum to the Syrian See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast . At the end of 1845 they returned See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home, and the results of the expedition, consisting of casts, drawings and squeezes of See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

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, JULIUS LEOPOLD (1810–1876)

Klein, and his See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment to a professorship in Berlin University in the following See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

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 (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text prepared from the See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note-books of the expedition; they comprise its entire archaeological, palaeographical and See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical results . • In 1866 Lepsius again went to Egypt, and discovered the famous See also:

• DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)

Decree of Tanis or Table of See also:

• CANOPUS, or CANOBUS

Canopus, an inscription of the same See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character as the See also:

• ROSETTA (Coptic Rashit, Arabic Rashid)

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 (Gr. Srlµorucos, of or belonging to the people)

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

July 1884 . Besides the See also:

• COLOSSAL

colossal Denkmaler and other publications of texts such as the Todtenbuch der Agypter (See also:

• BOOK

Book of the Dead, 1842) his other See also:

• WORKS

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

left behind few See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

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 (see also WRITING)

alphabet, the metrology, the names of metals and minerals, the See also:

• CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology, the royal names . On the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand one of his latest works, the Nubische Grammatik (188o), is an elaborate See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar of the then little-known Nubian See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, preceded by a linguistic See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of the See also:

• AFRICAN

African See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent . Throughout his See also:

• LIFE

life he profited by the See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of attaching to himself the right men, whether as patrons or, like Weidenbach and Stern, as assistants . Lepsius was a See also:

• FINE

fine specimen of the best type of German scholar . See See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard Lepsius, by Georg See also:

• EBERS, GEORG MORITZ (1837-1898)

Ebers (New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York, 1887), and See also:

• ART

art . EGYPT, See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section Exploration and See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

Research .