Emmanuel de Rougé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emmanuel de Rougé

French politician and professor

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1811

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 27-Dec-1872

Profession: politician, professor, archaeologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

The Viscount Olivier Charles Camille Emmanuel de Rouge (11 April 1811, in Paris – 27 December 1872, in Château de Bois-Dauphin to Precigne, Sarthe) was an Egyptologist and philologist French member of the House of Rougé. He was the son of Charles Camille Augustin de Rougé, Count de Rougé and Adelaide Charlotte de la Porte de Riantz (1790–1852). He was a member of the Order of the Legion of Honour, member of the Institut de France, curator of the Egyptian Museum of the Louvre (1849), State Councillor (1854) and professor of Egyptian archaeology at the Collège de France (1864).
He wrote several books on Egypt and its history.Busts of Viscount Emmanuel are held in the Louvre and the Museum of Cairo in Egypt.