Emil Brugsch

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Emil Brugsch , completely Émile Charles Albert Brugsch , (born February 24, 1842 in Berlin , † January 14, 1930 in Nice ) was a German Egyptologist .

Life

Emil Brugsch was a son of the Prussian gendarmerie sergeant Ernst Wilhelm Brugsch (1796-1858) and his wife Dorothea Schramm († 1868). After an adventurous life that led him to Brazil, he joined his older brother Heinrich Brugsch in Egypt in 1870 . First he was assistant director of the museum in Bulaq and then curator of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo , where he enriched himself by selling artefacts. After Auguste Mariette stopped him, he made Brugsch a valuable employee. He became Mariette and Gaston Maspero's assistant . He was particularly involved in the recovery of the mummies from the Deir el-Bahari cachette in West Thebes . Among the mummies discovered here was that of Ramses II.

For his many years of work, first at the museum in Bulaq and later, after its founding at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, he received the honorary title Bay and Pasha from the Egyptian government .

After the death of his brother in 1894, he retired to Nice in 1914, where he also died.

Fonts (selection)

  • The new Egyptian mummy find. In: Illustrirte Zeitung. Leipzig, September 17, 1881 (Reprinted in: Jürgen Sorge (Hrsg.): Die Mumien vongypt. A reading book. Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86268-989-7 , p. 78ff.)
  • Le livre des rois, contenant la liste chronologique des rois, reines, princes, princesses et personnages importants de l'Egypte depuis Ménès jusqu'à Nectanebo II. Cairo 1887.
  • The Egyptian royal mummies, antiquities and monuments, photographed from nature. Grosser, Leipzig 1887
  • La tente funéraire de la princesse Isimkheb provenant de la trouvaille de Déir el-Baharî. Cairo 1889.
  • Harry Nehls: The big and the small Brugsch . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 45-51 ( luise-berlin.de ).

literature

  • Heinrich Brugsch: My life and my hiking. General Association for German Literature, Berlin 1893, p. 225. 331.
  • Thomas Gertzen: The 'Big One' (1827-1894) and the 'Little One' (1842-1930) Brugsch. In: Kemet , Issue 4/2007, pp. 78-80.
  • Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology . 4th revised edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , pp. 83-84.

Web links

Commons : Emil Brugsch  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is the grave DB (TT) 320. See cachette . On: aegyptologie.com ; accessed on April 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Brugsch, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brusch, Émile Charles Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1930
Place of death Nice