François Chabas

François Joseph Chabas , born on January 2nd, 1817 with Briançon and dead on May 17th, 1882 with Versailles, is a Egyptologist French.

Of modest origin, François Joseph Chabas studies with Châlon-sur-saône and becomes wine merchant. Member of various academies, chair chamber of commerce and of industry of Trawl-net-Autun-Louhans, he becomes president of the departmental council of Saône-et-Loire.

Autodidact, it learns the Latin , the Greek and other languages. Attracted by the Anthropology, he teaches to the former Egyptian. Chalonnais of adoption, it was one of the pioneers of Egyptology in the line line of Vivant Denon, and a distinguished archeologist. It made Trawl-net the center of a “European university”, tying at the same time friendly and professional contacts with the most eminent orientalists of its time. Untiring worker, trading out of wines of profession and president of the chamber of commerce and industry of Trawl-net-Autun-Louhans, it is his passion for Egypt which well quickly propelled it to the highest destinies.

Among about fifty scientific works that it published during its existence, it is important to announce that it was first of all the first to decipher the oldest book of the world, the Papyrus Took, true treaty of Egyptian wisdom; he wrote also Voyage of an Egyptian in Syria, Phénicie and Palestine with before our era , work pointing out the history of Abraham and the Promised land.

He also dealt with the translation of the Papyrus Amhurst, the Papyrus Abbott and the Papyrus of Turin, the study of the treaty of Ramsès {{II}} and of Khétas, the decoding of the request with Amenhotep, the papyruses of Bologna and the maxims morals of Ani, the study of the currencies, the weights and measures, of which he has the given first the principal standards of the translation of the maxims morals of Ani, the maxims morals of Ptahhotep, the moral papyruses and other correspondences contained in the papyruses of the British Museum, of the museums of Berlin, of Bologna, etc…

Without omitting the profitable research carried out in the field of paleontology and European prehistory.

Between 1876 and 1880, Chabas also publishes a newspaper: Egyptology . Its work primarily concerned the expulsion of the Hyksôs.

With Chalon-sur-Saône, a monument in the Chabas public garden perpetuates its memory.

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