Charles Edwin Wilbour

Charles Edwin Wilbour ( born March 17, 1833 in Little Compton, Rhode Iceland, † December 17, 1896 in Paris) was an American journalist and Egyptologist.

Charles Wilbour studied at Brown University, where he received an award for his knowledge of ancient Greek, but could make for health reasons no conclusion. In 1854 he went to New York and became a reporter for the Herald Tribune. In 1858 he married the woman 's rights activist Charlotte Beebee. Wilbour studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859. However, he remained active as a journalist on and had a paper mill.

In the early 1870s he decided to leave the United States. He dealt with the Egyptology and visited numerous libraries in Europe. He worked with the German Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch and accompanied the French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero on five expeditions along the Nile. From 1889 sat Wilbour its Egypt travel independently towards.

In Aswan, he bought some Aramaic and hieratic papyri, part of the Elephantine papyri that were discovered during illegal excavations on the island of Elephantine. Wilbour died shortly afterwards in Paris. The papyri reached only about fifty years later at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Wilbour translated numerous books from the French, including the first time Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.