Emmanuel de Rougé

Olivier-Charles-Camille-Emmanuel de Rougé,
Born(1811-04-11)11 April 1811
Paris
Died27 December 1872(1872-12-27) (aged 61)
Château de Bois Dauphin
OccupationsProfessor, archaeologist, egyptologist, curator of museums and orientalists
Known forProfessor, archaeologist, egyptologist, curator of museums and orientalistsConservator of museums of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre (1849-1854) Consejero de Estado (1854-1870) Alcalde de Précigné (1865-1872)
Awards Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honor (1870)


Vicomte Olivier Charles Camille Emmanuel de Rouge (11 April 1811 – 27 December 1872) was a French Egyptologist,[1] philologist and a member of the House of Rougé.

Biography

He was born on 11 April 1811, in Paris, 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]

He died on 27 December 1872, in Château de Bois-Dauphin to Precigne, Sarthe.

Busts of de Rouge are held in the Louvre and the Cairo Museum 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]

Galerie

References

  1. ↑ Collège de France list of Chair of Egyptian Archaeology
  2. ↑ Maspero, Gaston (1908), Notice biographique du Vicomte Emmanuel de Rouge
  3. ↑ Volume 1 gallica.bnf.fr, Vol. 1
  4. ↑ 3 gallica.bnf.fr, Vol. 3
  5. ↑ 5 gallica.bnf.fr, Vol. 5
  6. ↑ 6 gallica.bnf.fr, Vol 6


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