Eugène Revillout

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Eugène Revillout (4 May 1843 – 11 January 1913) was a French Egyptologist.

Born in Besançon, Revillout worked for the Louvre in Paris, as both a curator for the collection and professor of Egyptian at its school.^[1] He dealt particularly with the youngest branches of the Egyptian language and literature, Demotic and Coptic. Revillout was among the first that dealt with the legal history of ancient Egypt. He died in 1913.

Besançon is the capital of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland.

The Egyptian language was spoken in ancient Egypt and was a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Its attestation stretches over an extraordinarily long time, from the Old Egyptian stage. Its earliest known complete written sentence has been dated to about 2690 BC, which makes it one of the oldest recorded languages known, along with Sumerian.

Demotic (Egyptian) ancient Egyptian script

Demotic is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta, and the stage of the Egyptian language written in this script, following Late Egyptian and preceding Coptic. The term was first used by the Greek historian Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts. By convention, the word "Demotic" is capitalized in order to distinguish it from demotic Greek.

With Heinrich Karl Brugsch and François Chabas, he published the Revue égyptologique (inaugural issue 1880).^[2]

Heinrich Karl Brugsch was a German Egyptologist. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis. He became director of the School of Egyptology at Cairo, producing numerous very valuable works and pioneering the decipherment of Demotic, the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods.

François Joseph Chabas was a French Egyptologist.

Works

Nouvelle chrestomathie démotique. Paris (1878)
Chrestomathie démotique. Paris (1880)
Le Roman de Setna. Paris (1880)
Cours de langue démotique : un poème satirique. Paris (1884)
Le procès d'Hermias : d'après les sources démotiques et des grecques. Paris (1884)
Les obligations en droit égytien comparé aux autres droits de l'Antiquité. Paris (1887)
Actes et contrats des musées égyptienne de Boulaq et du Louvre. Paris (1876)
Le concile de Nicée d'après les textes coptes. Paris (1881)
Lettres sur les monnaies égyptiennes. Paris (1895)
Mélanges sur la métrologie, l'economie politique et l'histoire de l'ancienne égyptiennes. Paris (1896)
Précis du droit égyptien. Paris (1902)

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References

↑ Beinlich-Seeber, Christine (1998). Bibliographie Altägypten, 1822-1946. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 1407. ISBN 978-3-447-03682-5 . Retrieved 17 July 2012.
↑ Revue Égyptologique Internet Archive

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[Beinlich-Seeber1998-1] Beinlich-Seeber, Christine (1998). Bibliographie Altägypten, 1822-1946. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 1407. ISBN 978-3-447-03682-5 . Retrieved 17 July 2012.

[2] Revue Égyptologique Internet Archive