Heinrich Karl Brugsch was a German Egyptologist. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis, Egypt. He became director of the School of Egyptology at Cairo, producing numerous works and pioneering the decipherment of Demotic - the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods.
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Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
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Lived 1827 to 1894 · aged 67
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