Eugène Xavier Louis Henri Hyvernat

Eugène Xavier Louis Henri Hyvernat (30 June 1858 – 29 May 1941) was a Coptologist. Quotes The Egyptians were a most conservative people; like other peoples, they were open to new religious concepts, and accepted them, but they never got rid of the older ones, no matter how much the older might conflict with the newer. If history proper is not more largely represented in Egyptian literature, it is because its naturally positive and dry character, which the structure of the Egyptian language made it difficult to disguise, was not in harmony with the highly imaginative Egyptian mind. No doubt the Egyptians were proud of their kings; but from one end of the country to the other the waters of the Nile reflected temples and mortuary chapels without number, on the walls of which the achievements of the pharaohs were spread in gorgeous inscriptions and reliefs. That was all the history they needed. It furnished them with historical outlines which their fertile imaginations filled out with stories or tales after their own taste. Egypt (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia External links Eugene Xavier Louis Henry Hyvernat Henri Hyvernat Category:1858 births Category:1941 deaths Category:Academics from France Category:Orientalists