Émile Egger

Émile Egger (18 July 1813 – 1 September 1885) was a French scholar.

In 1854 Egger was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions and in 1873 of the Conseil supérieur de l'instruction publique.

[1] Egger was a voluminous writer, a sound and discerning scholar, and his influence was largely responsible for the revival of the study of classical philology in France.

His most important works are as follows: He was also the author of Observations et réflexions sur le développement de l'intelligence et du langage chez les enfants (1879).

[1] Egger died in 1885,[1] and was buried at the Cimetière Montparnasse in Paris (facing the western wall, on the far right on entering from the north).