Karl Richard Lepsius
1810–84
German Egyptologist. Led a scientific expedition to Egypt, 1842–5. Professor of Egyptology at Berlin University, 1846. Co-director of the Berlin Egyptology Museum, 1855; director, 1865. President of the Roman archaeological institute in Berlin from 1867. Head of the royal library in Berlin, 1873–84. Author of Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien (1849–58).
Sources
DBE
NDB.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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