Claude Sicard

Sicard's 1717 map of Egypt

Father Claude Sicard (1677–1726) was a French Jesuit priest, and an early modern visitor to Egypt, between 1708 and 1712.

Sicard was a scholar and at the age of 22 was a professor in the seminary at Lyon.[1] He was well educated in Latin, Greek, Coptic and Arabic.[1] He was also skilled in cartography. His aim was to convert Egypt's Coptic Christians to Roman Catholicism.[1]

Sicard was Supervisor of the Jesuit Mission in Cairo. He ate only vegetables and conformed to the Egyptian way of living for nine successive years.[2]

He was the first European to locate Thebes. He identified the ruins of Karnak and Luxor as those of ancient Thebes.[3] Sicard commented that "Its remains are magnificent and more extensive than it is possible to imagine."[1]

Sicard died of plague from nursing the afflicted in 1726.[1]

Works

  • Extrait de la Carte de l'Egypte ancienne du P. Sicard présentée à L. XV. Au Kaire l'an 17 .. (1722)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Thompson, Jason. (2015). Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology. 1: From Antiquity to 1881. American University of Cairo Press. pp. 77-78. ISBN 978-9774165993
  2. ^ Roman Catholic Missions. (1832). The Quarterly Register 4: 216.
  3. ^ La Farge, Henry Adams. (1980). Museums of Egypt. Newsweek. p. 165
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