Gaston Maspero
In 1883 he succeeded Eugène Lefébure as director of the "Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale" in Cairo. Three years later, he succeeded Gaston Maspero as director of the "Département des antiquités égyptiennes", a position he maintained up until 1892. Afterwards, he worked as a lecturer of ancient history at the Sorbonne in Paris.