672 HENRY BRUGSCH. 



keenly the Avant of a permanent position with a sufficient income for his 

 needs and for a style of living in keeping with his great reputation. 

 He began to write for publishers; and the works he published, his 

 World of Tombs, 1 his Voyages in Persia and to the turquoise mines, 2 or 

 to the oasis of Khargeh, 3 his Thesaurus Inscriptionum Aegyptiacarum, 

 his manual of Egyptology, 4 his Egyptian Commentary on the Bible, 5 

 show traces of haste. The bitterness and the resentment of a blighted 

 life appeared in his speech and in his writings. Often when he came 

 back from a visit to his beloved Egypt he recovered his joyousness and 

 prepared a work written in the best spirit of his early days. Such is 

 his essay on the so-called famine stele, discovered by Wilbour. 6 This 

 pleasant frame of mind would soon be obliterated in Europe, and the 

 reading of his Recollections shows tbat toward the end lie was not always 

 just to the men of the new generation. He died more admired than 

 loved by all those who owe so much to him, although he never quite 

 secured the respect and the sympathy inspired by his friend Mariette 

 in all who met him. 



I do not allow myself to pass judgment on his work, for I profited too 

 greatly by him not to award him a profound recognition. Like all 

 Egyptologists, I have myself corrected hundreds of his errors or incor- 

 rect opinions. I have been troubled by the disorder which reigned in 

 the composition of his works and by the ignorance he affected toward 

 the works of others; but how many qualities did he not have to fully 

 compensate these defects. Three men have contributed more than all 

 others to make Egyptology what it is. Champollion founded it; E. de 

 Rouge has created for it a method; Brugsch forged the tools which for 

 a long time have served and will continue to serve the science of 

 Egyptology. 



1 Die Aegyptiscbe Griiberwelt. Leipzig. 8°. 1868. 



2 Wanderung nacb den Tiirkis-Miuen und der Sinai-Halbinsel. Leipzig. 8°. 1866. 

 3 Reise nach deu grossen Oase El-Khargeh in der libyschen Wiiste, Beschreibung 



ibrer Denkmitler und wissenscbaftlicbe Untersucbungen iiber das Vokommen der 

 Oasen in den altiigyptiscben Inscbriften auf Stein und Papyrus. Leipzig. 4°. 1878. 



4 Die Aegyptologie, Abriss der Entzifferungen und Forscbungen auf dem Gebiete 

 der agyptiscben Scbrift, Spracbe und Altertbumskunde. Leipzig. 8°. 1891. 



5 Steinscbrift und Bibelwort, 2d ed. Berlin. 8°. 1891. 



6 Die bibliscben sieben Jabre der Hungersnotb nacb dem Wortlaut einer altiigyp- 

 tiscben Felsen-Inscbrift. Leipzig. 8°. 1891. 



