Emmanuel de Rougé

Viscount Olivier-Charles-Camille-Emmanuel de Rougé (born April 11, 1811 in Paris , † December 27, 1872 at Bois-Dauphin Castle ( Précigné , Sarthe Department )) was a French Egyptologist .

Life

Emmanuel de Rougé came from an old Breton family. He first studied law , but after 1830 lived on his father's property in Anjou and turned to the study of oriental languages. From 1844 he devoted himself exclusively to Egyptology and was appointed curator of the Egyptian collection in the Louvre in 1849 and a councilor of state in the Department of Home Affairs and Public Education in 1854. As early as 1853, his work had given him such a reputation that he was elected a member of the Institut de France . After Lenormant's death (1859) he was appointed professor of Egyptian archeology at the Collège de France . He was also a member of the Legion of Honor and died in 1872 at the age of 61.

Rougé's works consist mainly of essays for the Revue archéologique (since 1847) and the Institute's Mémoires . He translated the Egyptian novel The Two Brothers ( written 3000 years ago) from d'Orbiney's papyrus in the British Museum (the first successful attempt to translate an entire hieratic papyrus ) and later the Sesostris epic. He also wrote a careful analysis of an inscription in the tomb of Aahmes (from the 18th dynasty) and another on a stele of Ramses XII. in the Bibliothèque nationale . He also wrote the very valuable Recherches sur les monuments qu'on peut attribuer aux six premières dynasties de Manéthon (Paris 1865) and a Chrestomathie égyptienne , the publication of which was only finished after his death (4 issues, 1867 to 1876).

His son Jacques edited from his estate:

• Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques copiées en Égypte , 4 vols., Paris 1877–79
• Inscriptions et notices recueillies à Edfou , 2 vols., Paris 1880

literature

• Emmanuel de Rougé . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 13, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 1009–1010.