Georges Legrain

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Georges Legrain , born in Paris on October 4th, 1865, deceased in Louxor on August 22nd, 1917, is a French Egyptologist, inspector as a chief of antiquities with Louxor. He marries in Cairo, on October 24th, 1898, Jeanne-Helene Ducros, girl of a pharmacist of Cairo. Two children are born from this union: Gaston Auguste Jules, born in Cairo on August 19th, 1901 and Jean-Daniel Pierre, born in Cairo on July 25th, 1907.

It took part in many excavations with Assouan - more precisely in Qubbet el-Hawa -, with Kom Ombo, Dahchour, in Gebel el-Silsila. Responsible for the work management of Karnak in 1895 by the archeologist Jacques de Morgan, II carries out the general release of the site and ambitious restorations, like the rebuilding of the hypostyle big room after the collapse of part of this one in 1899. Its great discovery is that of famous “the hiding-place” in 1903.

Its newspaper of excavation, started in 1901, was lost, but one preserves of him an important collection of photographic stereotypes.

In the garden of its house annexed to the western court of the temple, Legrain established a studio devoted to the statues and the steles discovered of which it made the stereotypes daily. The demolition of its house in order to release the panorama caused polemical sharp.

Publications

With Jacques de Morgan, Urbain Bouriant, Gustave Jéquier, A. Barsanti, Catalog of the monuments and inscriptions of ancient Egypt , Wien: Holzhausen, 1894-1909.
With Jacques de Morgan, Excavations in Dahchour , Wien: Holzhausen, 1895,1903.
the northern wing of the pylon of Aménophis with Karnak , Paris, Leroux, 1902.
Statues and statuettes of kings and private individuals , Cairo, Printing works of the IFAO, 1906-1925.
temples of Karnak , Bruxelle, Vromant, 1929.
a copte family of High-Egypt , Brussels, 1945.

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