BRUGSCH, HEINRICH KARL

born Feb. 18, 1827, Berlin, Prussia died Sept. 9, 1894, Charlottenburg, near Berlin German Egyptologist who pioneered in deciphering demotic, the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods. Brugsch was sent to Egypt by the Prussian government in 1853 and met there the noted French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette. He then worked in the Berlin Museum. In 1860 he was sent to Persia; in 1864 he was consul at Cairo; and in 1868 he was professor at Gttingen, Ger. When the khedive founded the Cairo School of Egyptology (1970), Brugsch was appointed director, a post he held for nine years. He then returned to live in Germany, frequently visiting Egypt until his death.