670 HENRY BRUGSCH. 



raohs as well as under the Ptolemies. The catalogues of vanquished 

 peoples and of captured cities, which the kings of the conquering 

 dynasties had inscribed on the walls of the temples of Thebes, showed 

 him the state of Syria and Ethiopia at epochs of which there was no 

 previous knowledge. The three volumes Inscriptions Geographiques 

 opened a new world to historians and geographers. 1 The geographers 

 have not, it is true, thought it worth while to explore it, but the Egyp- 

 tologists have done so. More than twenty years after, Brugsch again 

 took up a part of the subject which he had once treated. His Dic- 

 tionnaire Geographique, making use of the works of Diiinicken, and of 

 the two Bouges, corrected most of the mistakes found in his previous 

 work, but it contains only the names of cities and districts of the valley 

 of the Mle; 2 the Asiatic countries were excluded, as well as the coun- 

 tries on both sides of the Eed Sea, and he gave only very short articles, 

 one of which, entitled "La Table ethnographique des Anciens figyp- 

 tiens," contains views of remarkable ingenuity. 3 His Histoire d'Egypte, 

 published in French about 1860, embraced the discoveries of Rouge and 

 Mariette ; 4 a second French edition in 1875 was only a half success, 5 but 

 the German edition of 1879 crowned the author's reputation. 6 The 

 history begins with the inception of the monarchy and ends with Ihe 

 Macedonian conquest, presenting reign by reign and dynasty by dynasty 

 a brilliant picture of what is known of the destinies of Egypt. The 

 book has been translated into English and it is to-day the classical 

 work on the subject. 



But lexicography and grammar, as well as history and geography, 

 engaged the attention of Brugsch. He early recognized the fact, too 

 little understood, that it is no more difficult to prepare three or four 

 books at the same time than it is to write a single memoir. The text 

 studied for a series of mythological facts often contains passages which 

 clear up the sense of an obscure word or render possible the correction 

 of a grammatical rule. If the author does not neglect to note any of 

 the interesting points it nearly always happens that in searching for 

 materials for a historical dissertation he will collect facts for a dic- 

 tionary article or a grammatical monograph. It is in this way only 



: Geograpbische Inschriften altagyptischer Denkniiiler, gesammelt wahrend der 

 auf Befelil Konig Friebrich Willielm IV von Preussen unternoinnien wissenschaft- 

 licben Reise in Aegypten, erlautert und berausgegeben, 3 vols. 4°. Leipzig. 1857- 

 1860. 



2 Dictionnairo G6ographique de l'Ancienne Egypte, contenant par ordre alpba- 

 betique ]a nomenclature compared des noms propres g6ograpbiques qui se rencon- 

 trent sur les Papyrus. Leipzig. Folio. 1879-1880. 



"Diealtagyptisclie volkertafel. Berlin. 8°. 1821. 



4 Histoire d'Egypte des les premiers temps de son existence jusqu' a nos jours. l ere 

 partie: L'Egypte sous les premiers rois indigenes. Leipzig. 4°. 1859. 



5 Histoire d'Egypte. I aro partie: Introduction, Histoire des Dynasties I-XVII, 2 e 

 ddit. Leipzig. 8°. 1875. 



fi Geschichte Aegyptens unter den Pharaonen nach den Denkmalern bearbeitet. 

 Leipzig. 8°. 1878. 



