# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/urbain-bouriant
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:41:55.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/urbain-bouriant"
name: "Urbain Bouriant"
slug: "urbain-bouriant"
description: "Urbain Bouriant was a French Egyptologist, who discovered the Gospel of Peter in a tomb at Akhmim. He is best known from his translation of Al-Maqrizi, published as Description topographique et historique de l'Egypte. He was the collaborator of Gaston Maspero in 1880, when Maspero founded the French archaeological mission to Cairo, precursor of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO)."
tagline: "French egyptologist (1849–1903)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_des_%C3%84gyptologen_Urbain_Bouriant.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1849-04-11"
deathDate: "1903-06-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.92
  momentum:             13.2
  historical:           8.070878666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_Bouriant"
    title: "Urbain Bouriant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "أوربين بوريان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اربين بوريانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_Bouriant"
    title: "Urbain Bouriant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_Bouriant"
    title: "Urbain Bouriant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_Bouriant"
    title: "Urbain Bouriant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_Bouriant"
    title: "Urbain Bouriant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_Bouriant"
    title: "Urbain Bouriant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_Bouriant"
    title: "Urbain Bouriant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508907"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump