Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 'Carl Richard Lepsius\'. Born 1810 in Naumburg on the river Saale, died 1884. German professor of Egyptology and linguist. He developed a Standard Alphabet for writing African Languages. It was published 1855 and a revised edition in 1863. His Nubian Grammar contains a sketch of African peoples and a classification of African languages. See also: W. H. I. Bleek This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.