Émile Brugsch

Émile Brugsch (February 24, 1842 – January 14, 1930) was a German Egyptologist known for having thrown on the rubbish heap an arm found in the tomb of Djer which Ancient Egyptians believed was the tomb of Osiris.

[1] He was also the official who evacuated the mummies of the Royal Cache from Deir el-Bahari in 1881 without recording the plan of the tomb.

[2] Emil Charles Adalbert Brugsch was born in Berlin on 24 February 1842.

Brugsch did attend secondary school but received no higher education.

The autobiography of Adolf Erman is a primary source on the Brugsch family.