Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–84)

German Egyptologist. Led a scientific expedition to Egypt, 1842–5. Professor of Egyptology at Berlin University, 1846. Co-director of the Berlin Egyptology Museum, 1855; director, 1865. President of the Roman archaeological institute in Berlin from 1867. Head of the royal library in Berlin, 1873–84. Author of Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien (1849–58).