Emile Clément  Amélineau  ( 28.08.1850  -  12.01.1915 )

Émile C. Amélineau was a French Egyptologist and Coptologist. He was ordained in teh catholic church but was attracted to Egyptology by Felix Robiou whose lectures he attended. He purused his studies of Egyptian and Coptic in Paris under Gaston Maspero and Eugène Grébaut in 1877–1883 and then in Oxford, London, and Leiden in 1881–1882, before joining the French Archaeological Mission in Cairo in 1883. After four years there, he renounced his order and submited his thesis in 1887.

He directed fieldwork at Abydos in 1894–1898, where he was the first to excavate the early dynastic royal tombs. He also commissioned work at the nearby site of el-Amra in 1896–1897 following initial investigations there by Jacques de Morgan. Although he obtained significant results, he was heavily criticised by Gaston Maspéro for his lack of scientific method, an opinion shared by William M. Flinders Petrie. He returned to France, where he was lecturer at the École des Hautes Études in 1887–1903, and then professor of the History of Religions in 1903–1915.

Emile C. Amélineau had constituted a collection of Egyptian antiquities that was sold in Paris on 8–9 February 1904.  He donated a considerable number of Egyptian antiquities from his own excavations and other sources to the Musée Municipal at Châteaudun in 1905.