Hermine Hartleben
Hermine Hartleben (1846 in Germany - 1918), German specialist in the Egyptologist French Jean-François Champollion.
After academic works with Hanover, then with Paris, it is attracted very young person by the Orient; it accepts a station of teaching with Constantinople, then, towards the end of the year 1870, goes in Egypt where it remains six years. It become acquainted there with Gaston Maspero, successor of Auguste Mariette, and is impassioned for Pharaonic civilization.
Returned to Germany, it meets fortuitously, of the years afterwards, the large Egyptologist Adolf Erman who incites it to consider the work and the destiny of the scanner of the hiéroglyphes, Jean-François Champollion. Consequently, it devotes its life, turns over to Egypt (1890-1891) and gathers an enormous documentation to it, in particular in France.
Its monumental biography of Champollion appears in Berlin in 1906. This fundamental biography remains inconstestablement the absolute book of reference, called Hartleben , and the traditional one having inspired these last years all the works published on the father of Egyptology.
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