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Richard Lepsius (1810–1884)
Lepsius, Karl Richard (lep’sē-ös). A distinguished German Egyptologist; born at Naumburg, Dec. 23, 1810; died at Berlin, July 10, 1884. In his celebrated ‘Letter to Mr. Rossellini on the Hieroglyphic Alphabet’ (1837), he propounded a scientific theory of hieroglyphic writing. His translation of the ‘Book of the Dead’ was published in 1842. That year he visited Egypt, and for four years studied its monuments; the results of his researches and those of his associates are contained in the magnificent ‘Monuments of Egypt and Ethiopia’ (12 vols., 1849–60). Besides numerous memoirs addressed to the Academy of Berlin and other learned societies, he wrote for the general public ‘Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Sinaitic Peninsula’ (1852).