Claude Sicard
French Jesuit priest and egyptologist
About Claude Sicard
Lived 1677 – 1726 (aged 48–49). Claude Sicard was a French anthropologist, egyptologist and cartographer.
Father Claude Sicard (1677–1726) was a French Jesuit priest, and an early modern visitor to Egypt, between 1708 and 1712.
Sicard was a scholar and at the age of 22 was a professor in the seminary at Lyon. He was well educated in Latin, Greek, Coptic and Arabic.
He was the first European to locate Thebes. He identified the ruins of Karnak and Luxor as those of ancient Thebes. Sicard commented that "Its remains are magnificent and more extensive than it is possible to imagine."
Sicard died of plague from nursing the afflicted in 1726.
Works
Extrait de la Carte de l'Egypte ancienne du P. Sicard présentée à L. XV. Au Kaire l'an 17 .. (1722)
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Who was Claude Sicard?
French Jesuit priest and egyptologist (1677–1726)
When was Claude Sicard born?
Claude Sicard was born in 1677 in Aubagne.
When did Claude Sicard die?
Claude Sicard died on 12 April 1726.
What was Claude Sicard's occupation?
Claude Sicard was an anthropologist, egyptologist and cartographer.
What nationality was Claude Sicard?
Claude Sicard was French.
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