BRUGSCH, HEINRICH KARL German Egyptologist. He was sent to Egypt by the Prussian Government in 1853, where he met Mariette. He then worked in the Berlin museum. In 186o he was sent to Persia; in 1864 he was consul at Cairo, and in 1868 he was professor at Gottingen. On the foundation by the khedive of the Cairo school of Egyptology (187o) he was appointed director, a post he held for nine years. He then returned to live in Germany, frequently visiting Egypt until his death. Brugsch's services to Egyptology are most im portant, particularly in the decipherment of demotic and the making of a vast hieroglyphic-demotic dictionary (1867-82).