Francois_Chabas
François Joseph Chabas (2 January 1817, Briançon, Hautes-Alpes – 17 May 1882, Versailles) was a French Egyptologist.
Chabas came from a modest background, studied at Chalon and became a wine merchant. Self-taught, he learned Latin, Greek and other languages. Interested in anthropology, he turned to study Old Egyptian languages.[1] Chabas was a member of several learned societies and later president of the Conseil departemental of Saône-et-Loire.[2]
Between 1876 and 1880, Chabas edited the journal L'Égyptologie.[2] His works have contributed much to elucidate the history of the invasion and repulsion of the Hyksos in Egypt.[3][4]
Chabas was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1865.[5] He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1869.[6]