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Heinrich Karl Brugsch

1827 - 1894

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Heinrich Karl Brugsch (also Brugsch-Pasha) (18 February 1827 – 9 September 1894) was a German Egyptologist. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis. He became director of the School of Egyptology at Cairo, producing numerous very valuable works and pioneering the decipherment of Demotic, the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Karl Brugsch is the 64th most popular archaeologist (down from 57th in 2019), the 3,452nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,216th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Heinrich Karl Brugsch ranks 64 out of 151. Before him are Meritites I, Colin Groves, Alan Gardiner, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Adolf Furtwängler, and André Parrot. After him are Donald Johanson, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, James Quibell, François Bordes, Johann Andreas Wagner, and Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Heinrich Karl Brugsch ranks 48. Before him are Anthimus VII of Constantinople, Amédée Courbet, Pierre Cuypers, Pierre Tirard, Charles Wolf, and Goffredo Mameli. After him are Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jacques-Louis Soret, Nakahama Manjirō, Petko Slaveykov, Nikolay Beketov, and Barbara Bodichon. Among people deceased in 1894, Heinrich Karl Brugsch ranks 47. Before him are Pavel Yablochkov, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Maria Deraismes, Walter Pater, Auguste Vaillant, and Marietta Alboni. After him are Franjo Rački, Charles Laval, Gall, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, and Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Karl Brugsch ranks 3,454 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), Hugo Schiff (1834), Rolf Singer (1906), Johann Ernst Glück (1652), Manfred Weber (1972), and Friedrich Christiansen (1879). After him are Ludwig Richter (1803), Princess Amelia of Great Britain (1711), Franz Blücher (1896), Otto Pfister (1937), Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (1300), and Nick Heidfeld (1977).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Heinrich Karl Brugsch ranks 12. Before him are Leo Frobenius (1873), Ernst Curtius (1814), Ami Boué (1794), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Max von Oppenheim (1860), and Adolf Furtwängler (1853). After him are Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Halet Çambel (1916), Hugo Winckler (1863), Ernst Herzfeld (1879), Rudolf Wagner (1805), and Klaus Schmidt (1953).

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