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.

Caricature of de Rougé by Eugène Giraud

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]

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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[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