François Chabas Explained

François Joseph Chabas (2 January 1817, Briançon, Hautes-Alpes  - 17 May 1882, Versailles) was a French Egyptologist.

Chabas came from a modest background, studied at Chalon and became a wine merchant. Self-taught, he learned Latin, Greek and other languages. Interested in anthropology, he turned to study Old Egyptian languages.^[1] Chabas was a member of several learned societies and later president of the Conseil departemental of Saône-et-Loire.^[2]

Between 1876 and 1880, Chabas edited the journal L'Égyptologie.^[2] His works have contributed much to elucidate the history of the invasion and repulsion of the Hyksos in Egypt.^{[3] [4]}

Chabas was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1865.^[5] He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1869.^[6]

Works

• Le plus ancien livre du monde, étude sur le papyrus Prisse, (1858)  - The oldest book in the world, a study of the Prisse Papyrus.^[7]
• Mélanges égyptologiques (3 Ser. in 4 Vols. Paris: Châlon, 1862–1873)  - Egyptology medley.
• Voyage d'un Egyptien en Syrie, en Phénicie, en Palestine au quatorzième siècle avant notre ère (Paris 1866)  - Voyage of an Egyptian in Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine in the 14th century BC.
• Les pasteurs en Egypte (Amsterdam 1868)  - The pasteurs in Egypt (in reference to the Hyksos).^[8]
• Étude sur l'antiquité historique d'après les sources égyptiennes et les monuments réputés préhistoriques (Amsterdam 1872)  - Study of the ancient history according to Egyptian sources and prehistoric monuments.
• Recherches pour servir à l'histoire de la XIX^ème dynastie et spécialment à celle des temps de l'Exode (Amsterdam 1873)  - Research in regards to the history of the 19th dynasty and especially to that of the time of the Exodus.
• Recherches sur les poids, mesures et monnaies des anciens Égyptiens, (1876)  - Research on the weights, measures and coins of ancient Egypt.^[9]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=_QFlCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Fran%C3%A7ois+Joseph+Chabas%22+1817&pg=PT224 Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 1: From Antiquity to 1881
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=IQkbAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Chabas%22+%22L%27%C3%89gyptologie%22+1876+1880&pg=PA71 Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 4
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=H11YAAAAcAAJ&dq=%22Chabas%22+Hyksos&pg=PA232 Ten Great Religions: an Essay in Comparative Theology
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=plBQAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Chabas%2C+Fran%C3%A7ois%22+Brian%C3%A7on&pg=PA739 The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and ..., Volume 26
5. Web site: F.J. Chabas (1817 - 1882) . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 5 October 2016.
6. Web site: APS Member History. 2021-04-26. search.amphilsoc.org.
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=DmoVAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Le+plus+ancien+livre+du+monde%2C+%C3%A9tude+sur+le+papyrus+Prisse%22&pg=PA1 Le plus ancien livre du monde, étude sur le papyrus Prisse
8. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100789764 Les Pasteurs en Egypte
9. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6941531 Recherches sur les poids, mesures et monnaies des anciens Égyptiens