Claude Sicard
Father Claude Sicard (1677–1726) was a French Jesuit priest, and an early modern visitor to Egypt, between 1708 and 1712. • Illustration — Sicard's 1717 map of Egypt Sicard was a scholar and at the age of 22 was a professor in the seminary in Lyon. He was well educated in Latin, Greek, Coptic and Arabic. He was also skilled in cartography.
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Claude Sicard
Sicard, Claude (1677-1726). Cartographe · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
- Born
- 1677.
- Died
- 1726.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, Egyptologist and cartographer.
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His aim was to convert Egypt's Coptic Christians to Roman Catholicism. 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. He was the first European to locate Thebes. He identified the ruins of Karnak and Luxor as those of ancient Thebes. Sicard commented that "Its remains are magnificent and more extensive than it is possible to imagine." Sicard died of plague from nursing the afflicted in 1726.
• Extrait de la Carte de l'Egypte ancienne du P. Sicard présentée à L. XV. Au Kaire l'an 17.. (1722)
Sujet: Égypte -- Divisions politiques et administratives Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire: AnvilAf Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire: MAEDI008 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire: MAEDIGen0
Sicard, Claude (1677-1726). Cartographe · Bibliothèque nationale de France
![Sujet: Égypte -- 1722 Échelle(s): [1:700 000 ca]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Carte_de_l%27Egypte_copi%C3%A9e_par_Guillaume_Deli_-_isle_en_1726_sur_une_carte_du_P%C3%A8re_Sicard_dedu_P%C3%A8re_Sicard_de_1722_-_btv1b531002007.jpg/800px-Carte_de_l%27Egypte_copi%C3%A9e_par_Guillaume_Deli_-_isle_en_1726_sur_une_carte_du_P%C3%A8re_Sicard_dedu_P%C3%A8re_Sicard_de_1722_-_btv1b531002007.jpg)
Sujet: Égypte -- 1722 Échelle(s): [1:700 000 ca]
Delisle, Guillaume (1675-1726). Cartographe Sicard, Claude (1677-1726). Auteur adapté · Bibliothèque nationale de France
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- 1.Diccionario historico de la Compañia de Jesús, vol.IV, Roma, IHSI, 2001
- 2.Antoine Rabbath, dans Documents inédits pour servir à l’histoire du Christianisme en Orient, París, 1905, 1:131-134)
- 3.Voir tome , 1717 ; tome , 1725 ; tome , 1727 et surtout tome , 1729.
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- Baudouin Van de Walle, « La découverte d'Amarna et d'Akhenaton », dans Revue Égyptologie, vol. 28 (1976), .
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