Heinrich Karl Brugsch

Egyptologist, born in Berlin, Germany. He was director of the School of Egyptology in Cairo (1870–90), helped to decipher demotic script, and published a hieroglyphic–demotic dictionary (1867–82).

Heinrich Karl Brugsch (also Brugsch-Pasha) (18 February 1827 – 9 September 1894) was a German Egyptologist, born in Berlin.

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Brugsch was the son of a Prussian cavalry officer, and was born in the barracks at Berlin. After completing his university course and visiting foreign museums he was sent to Egypt by the Prussian government in 1853, and contracted an intimate friendship with Mariette.

In 1860 he was sent to Persia on a special mission under Baron Minutoli, travelled over the country, and after Minutoli's death discharged the functions of ambassador. In 1864 he was consul at Cairo, in 1868 professor at Göttingen, and in 1870 director of the school of Egyptology, founded at Cairo by the khedive. He afterwards resided principally in Germany until his death in 1894, but frequently visited Egypt, took part in another official mission to Persia, and organized an Egyptian exhibit at the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876.

He had been made a pasha by the khedive in 1881. He published his autobiography in 1894, concluding with a warm panegyric upon British rule in Egypt.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.