Emmanuel de Rougé

The Viscount Olivier Charles Camille Emmanuel de Rouge (11 April 1811, in Paris – 27 December 1872, in Château de Bois-Dauphin to Precigne, Sarthe) was an Egyptologist[1] and philologist French member of the House of Rougé.

He was the son of Charles Camille Augustin de Rougé, Count de Rougé and Adelaide Charlotte de la Porte de Riantz (1790–1852).

He was a member of the Order of the Legion of Honour, member of the Institut de France, curator of the Egyptian Museum of the Louvre (1849), State Councillor (1854) and professor of Egyptian archaeology at the Collège de France (1864). He wrote several books on Egypt and its history.[2]

Busts of Viscount Emmanuel are held in the Louvre and the Museum of Cairo in Egypt.

Publications

  • Mémoire sur l'inscription du tombeau d'Ahmès, chef des nautoniers (1851)
  • Le Poème de Pentaour (1861)
  • Rituel funéraire des anciens égyptiens (1861–1863)
  • Recherches sur les monuments qu'on peut attribuer aux six premières dynasties de Manéthon (1865)
  • Chrestomathie égyptienne, ou Choix de textes égyptiens transcrits, traduits et accompagnés d'un commentaire perpétuel et précédés d'un abrégé grammatical (1867–1876)
  • Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques copiées en Égypte pendant la mission scientifique de M. le Vte Emmanuel de Rougé, publiées par M. le Vte Jacques de Rougé (4 volumes, 1877–1879)
  • Œuvres diverses (6 volumes, 1907–1918) [3][4][5][6]
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References


Preceded by
Charles Lenormant
Chair of Egyptian
Philology and Archeology at
the Collège de France

1860–1872
Succeeded by
Gaston Maspero
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