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Charles Edwin Wilbour
Born(1833-03-17)March 17, 1833
Little Compton, Rhode Island
DiedDecember 17, 1896(1896-12-17) (aged 63)
Paris, France
Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetery, New York City
EducationBrown University
OccupationEgyptologist
SpouseCharlotte Beebe

Charles Edwin Wilbour (March 17, 1833 – December 17, 1896) was an American journalist and Egyptologist. Wilbour is noted as one of the discoverers of the Elephantine Papyri and the creator of the first English translation of Les Misérables.

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Charles Edwin Wilbour

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Charles Edwin Wilbour (March 17, 1833 – December 17, 1896) was an American journalist and Egyptologist. Wilbour is noted as one of the discoverers of...

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Wilbour

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Wilbour is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Edwin Wilbour (1833–1896), American journalist and Egyptologist Charlotte Beebe...

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Wilbour Papyrus

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The Wilbour Papyrus, named after the New York journalist who acquired it, Charles Edwin Wilbour, is the largest known non-funerary papyrus from Ancient...

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Roses Are Red

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amours. In his English translation published in the same year, Charles Edwin Wilbour rendered this as: Violets are blue, roses are red, Violets are blue...

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Elephantine papyri and ostraca

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American collector Charles Edwin Wilbour acquired a number of papyri, including 12 Aramaic documents from the Anani archive. Wilbour’s family passed the...

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Brown University

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(1897), Sidney Frank (Class of 1942), Ted Turner (Class of 1960), Wilbur Edwin "Ed" Bosarge (1969), Orlando Bravo (1970), Jonathan M. Nelson (1977), Paul...

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James Peter Allen

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Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1990 to 2006. In 2007, he became the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. In 2008, he was elected...

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Housefly

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lapis lazuli, Length: 9 11/16 in. (24.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.198". Retrieved 8 December 2017. Nazni WA, Luke H,...

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List of Egyptologists

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Werbrouck (Belgian, 1889–1959) Wolfhart Westendorf (German, 1924–2018) Charles Edwin Wilbour (American, 1833–1896) John Gardner Wilkinson (British, 1797–1875)...

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Edwin Blashfield

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Evangeline Wilbour in 1881 and together they wrote Italian Cities (1900) and translated Vasari's Lives of the Painters (4 vols., 1897). Wilbour died in 1918...

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Rigoletto

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ISBN 978-1417928965. Hugo, Adèle (1863). Victor Hugo. Translated by Charles Edwin Wilbour. New York: Carleton. Kimbell, David (1985). Verdi in the Age of...

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Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives

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The Wilbour Library is named after Charles Edwin Wilbour, 1833–96, one of America's first Egyptologists. During his travels to Egypt, Wilbour visited...

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Charlotte Beebe Wilbour

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married Charles Edwin Wilbour on 18 January 1858. They had four children: Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, Victor Wilbour, and Zoe Wilbour. In...

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Brooklyn Museum

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that of American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour, whose heirs also donated his library to become the museum's Wilbour Library of Egyptology, and objects...

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List of University of Chicago alumni

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Research in New York City Richard Anthony Parker (Ph.D. 1938) – Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University; director of the University...

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List of Brown University alumni

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Director of the Military History Center, University of North Texas Charles Edwin Wilbour (Class of 1854) – Egyptologist, co-discoverer of the Elephantine...

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Brooklyn Papyrus

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known. It was purchased around 1889 by Charles Edwin Wilbour and donated to the museum by his daughter Theodora Wilbour in the early 1930s. The manuscript...

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1833 in the United States

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1898) March 14 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor, dentist (died 1910) March 17 – Charles Edwin Wilbour, Egyptologist (died 1896) May 24 – John Killefer, businessman and...

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Asger Aaboe

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Mathematica. 34 (3). Elsevier: 377–9. doi:10.1016/j.hm.2007.07.001. {John M. Steele, Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown U.)...

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1862 in literature

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English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October...

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Painting of Lady Tjepu

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entered the Brooklyn Museum in 1916 as part of the collection of Charles Edwin Wilbour, where it remains a key piece of the ancient Egyptian collection...

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List of Brown University buildings

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2007-12-06. "Records of #38 Charles Field Street" (PDF). Providence Preservation Society. Retrieved 2008-07-02. "Records of 71-73 Charles Field Street" (PDF)...

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Richard Anthony Parker

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first chairman, and also assumed the newly created position of the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professorship. That year, Parker also began his service as a founding...

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Elizabeth Titzel Riefstahl

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librarian for their recently opened Wilbour Library of Egyptology, named for American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour. During this time, her area of study...

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1896 in archaeology

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11 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist (b. 1814) December 17 - Charles Edwin Wilbour, American Egyptologist and writer (b. 1833) "Limavady Part 3 - Broighter...

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