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on the coffin of Amamu. The fault lies not with any of the
generations of the learned and devoted men who have spent their
lives in compiling that wonderful Great Catalogue, with its
millions of entries of books in every printed language of the world,
but with those who buried in their own books Birch's greatest
works so effectually that they have no mention under his name in
the authors' great Book of Life, the British Museum Catalogue.
In his admirable Bibliography, The Literature of Egypt and the
Soudan, 2 vols., London, 1886, 4to, Prince Ibrahim Hilmy rightly
mentioned the translation of the Book of the Dead, and the
Dictionary of Hieroglyphics and the Hieroglyphic Grammar under
the entry Birch, Samuel, LL.D., etc. But even so, he refers the
reader for particulars of these works to the entry Bunsen, C. C. J.
HEINRICH BRUGSCH AND HIS
WORTERBUCH."
" HIEROGLYPHISCH-DEMOTISCHES
The publication of Bunsen's Aegyptens Stelle in der Welt-
geschichte in 1845 fired the imagination of a young German called
Heinrich Brugsch, 1 who was at that time a pupil in the Real Brugsch's
Gymnasium at Cologne, and he devoted himself ardently to the
demotic.
study of the Egyptian inscriptions in the demotic character. In
1849 he published the paper, Die demotische Schrift der alien Aegypter
und ihre Monumente, in the Zeitschrift of the German Oriental
Society (Bd. Ill, pp. 262-272), and in 1850 he received his Doctorate His editions of
from the University of Berlin for his Thesis De Natura et Indole demotic texts
Linguae Popular is Aegyptiorum, Berlin (Diimmler, 1850, 8vo).
In the same year he published Die Inschrift von Rosette, nach ihrem
Aegyptisch-demotischen Texte sprachlich und sachlich erkldrt, with
an Appendix containing a series of hitherto unpublished demotic
texts. In 1851 he published the hieroglyphic text of the Rosetta
Stone, 2 with a Hieroglyphic-Coptic-Latin vocabulary and a list of
hieroglyphic characters, and after a Mission to Egypt in 1853-54 His Grammar
he published his famous Grammaire Demotique. 3 Ten years later f demotic,
he published his epoch-making work on the Rhind Papyri, 4
and
proved himself to be an expert in translating very difficult hieratic
and demotic texts. Brugsch did not confine his studies to demotic,
and between 1855 and 1865 he was engaged in drawing up a
1
Born and died in Berlin (February i8th, 1827 September Qtb, 1894).
1
Inscriptio Rosettana Hieroglyphica. Berlin, 1851. 4to.
3
Grammaire Demotique, contenant les Principes Generaux de la Langne et
de I'Ecriture Populaire des Anciens Egyptians. Berlin, 1855. 4to.
4
Henry Rhind's Zwei Bilingue Papyri, hieratisch und demotisch, iibersetzt
und herausgegeben. Leipzig, 1865. 4to.