12019-05-01T13:49:29-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12332306plain2019-05-14T23:59:06-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Heinrich Brugsch was a prominent early Egyptologist and linguist. He did pioneering work on the translation of hieroglyphic and Demotic languages and is considered a founder of the field of Egyptology. Through his influence, Heinrich Brugsch secured a curatorial appointment at the Boulaq Museum for his younger brother Émile Brugsch, despite the latter's lack of experience. Jane Stanford's future brother-in-law David Hewes met Heinrich Brugsch during his 1877 honeymoon in Egypt, when Brugsch advised Hewes and first wife Matilda Hewes on their collecting. Their souvenirs were eventually bequeathed to Stanford University by Hewes' second wife, Anna Hewes.
1media/brugsch.jpg2019-04-16T19:20:47-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Émile Charles Adalbert BrugschEmilia Porubcin42(1842-1930)structured_gallery2019-05-15T03:41:44-07:00
(1842-1930)
The Egyptologist Émile Brugsch served as assistant curator of the Boulaq Museum in Luxor, Egypt, under Gaston Maspero. Brugsch later became Director of the museum, which eventually moved to Cairo to form the core collection of the current Egyptian Museum. Brugsch's older brother, Heinrich Brugsch, was the more prominent Egyptologist. Émile Brugsch had been a saloon keeper in America, among other pursuits; his photographic skill was perhaps more relevant to his new profession in Egypt. He is known for his role as middleman between foreign collectors and Cairo-based dealers and museums with antiquities to sell. It is this role that connects him to Stanford: Émile Brugsch liaised between Jane Stanford and N. D. Kyticas and selected the antiquities included in that sale. Stanford may have met Brugsch through their mutual acquaintance, Chauncey Murch. Brugsch also sold her some of his wife's Egyptian collection. Brugsch was granted the honorific "Bey" by the government of Ottoman Egypt, an association so strong it is treated as part of his name in some of Stanford's records.Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12
David Hewes took two trips to Egypt: one with his first wife, Matilda Hewes, in 1877; and one with his second wife, Anna Hewes (Jane Stanford's sister), in 1890. He collected antiquities during both stays. In 1877, it was with the help of the Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch. In 1890, it was the Egyptologist's brother, Émile Brugsch, who assisted Hewes in finding choice pieces for his collection. Émile Brugsch apparently first wrote to Jane Stanford in 1890 on David Hewes' advice and later assisted her in her own Egyptian collecting.Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12
12019-05-01T13:53:48-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Matilda C. Gray HewesEmilia Porubcin6plain2019-05-08T18:06:59-07:00Matilda Hewes was David Hewe's first wife. Matilda and David visited Egypt after they were married in 1877 as part of a two and a half year grand tour. While there, the couple met the influential early Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch, who helped them acquire Egyptian antiquities as souvenirs of their trip. After she died, at least some of Gray Hewes' Egyptian artifacts passed to David Hewes' second wife, Anna Hewes, who was Jane Stanford's sister. Anna Hewes bequeathed her Egyptian collection to Stanford University when she died.Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12
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1media/brugsch.jpg2019-04-16T19:20:47-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Émile Charles Adalbert Brugsch42(1842-1930)structured_gallery2019-05-15T03:41:44-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12
12019-05-01T13:53:48-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Matilda C. Gray Hewes6plain2019-05-08T18:06:59-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12