Henri Munier


Henri Munier was a 20th-century French bibliographer and scholar of Coptic culture.

Biography

The grandson of Antoine Mourès, publisher of François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette, and son of Jules Munier, a journalist based in Cairo, Henri Munier spent the first years of his life in Burgundy, where he studied Literature.
In 1908, he was hired by Gaston Maspero, Director General of Antiquities in Egypt, as head of the Library of the new museum, which opened four years earlier. He engaged in an important work of bibliography by creating catalogs and museum index, especially Egyptology, Coptic language and archeology.
In 1924, whereas Egyptian nationality had been established, civil servants could not be foreigners. King Fuad then appointed him Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. There he continued his research in bibliography and geography. With father Bovier-Lapierre, Munier created the museum of Ethnography still opened to visits.

Works

Egyptology:
Geography:
History:
Copt archeology: