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

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, Revillout worked for

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in Paris, as both a curator for the collection and professor of

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at its school. He dealt particularly with the youngest branches of the Egyptian language and literature,

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and

Coptic Coptic may refer to: Afro-Asia * Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya * Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century * Coptic alphabet ...

. Revillout was among the first that dealt with the legal history of ancient Egypt. He died in 1913. With

Heinrich Karl Brugsch Heinrich Karl Brugsch (also ''Brugsch-Pasha'') (18 February 18279 September 1894) 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, producin ...

and

François Chabas François Joseph Chabas (2 January 1817, Briançon, Hautes-Alpes – 17 May 1882, Versailles) was a French Egyptologist. Chabas came from a modest background, studied at Chalon and became a wine merchant. Self-taught, he learned Latin, Greek ...

, he published the ''Revue égyptologique'' (inaugural issue 1880).Revue Égyptologique
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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)

References

French Egyptologists 1843 births 1913 deaths {{Egyptologist-stub