BRASSEUR DE BOURBOURG, CHARLES ETI ENNE (1814-1874), Belgian ethnographer, was born at Bour bourg, near Dunkirk. From 1848 to 1863 he travelled as a mis sionary, chiefly in Mexico and Central America. He published in a history of Aztec civilization, and from 1861-64 edited a collection of documents in the indigenous languages. In 1864 he was archaeologist to the French military expedition in Mexico, and his Monuments anciens du Mexique was published by the French government in 1866. He translated into French the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Quiche Indians, and wrote a Quiche grammar. In 1871 he brought out his Bibliotheque Mexico-Guate malienne, and in 2869-70 gave the principles of his decipherment, much disputed, of Indian picture-writing in his Manuscrit Troano, etudes sur le systeme graphique at la langue des Mayas.