Eugène Revillout, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eugène Revillout

French egyptologist

Date of Birth: 02-May-1843

Place of Birth: Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1913

Profession: egyptologist, legal historian, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Eugène Revillout (4 May 1843 – 11 January 1913) was a French Egyptologist. Born in Besançon, Revillout worked for the Louvre in Paris, as both a curator for the collection and professor of Egyptian at its school.
He dealt particularly with the youngest branches of the Egyptian language and literature, Demotic and Coptic.
Revillout was among the first that dealt with the legal history of ancient Egypt.
He died in 1913. With Heinrich Karl Brugsch and François Chabas, he published the Revue égyptologique (inaugural issue 1880).