Hermine Ida Auguste Hartleben (2 June 1846 – 18 July 1919) was a German Egyptologist. She was the daughter of a forest officer in Altenau. Later, she studied in Hanover and became a teacher. She studied Greek archaeology at the

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, taught in a Greek school in

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, and taught French to the children of a

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in Egypt. At the suggestion of German Egyptologists, she wrote the first biography of Jean-François Champollion, the decipherer of

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. Hartleben died in 1919 and was buried in the cemetery in

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Publications

* ''Champollion : sein Leben und sein Werk : von H. Hartleben.'', 1906

References

1846 births 1918 deaths German Egyptologists People from Goslar (district) Archaeologists from Lower Saxony 20th-century German women writers {{Egyptologist-stub