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M. (Edmé-François) Jomard
1777–1862
A French engineer-geographer and archaeologist, he helped document Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition and became closely linked with the monumental Description de l’Égypte. His career also connected France and Egypt through mapping, scholarship, and educational work.
1 Audiobook
Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by René Caillié, M. (Edmé-François) Jomard
About the author
Born in Versailles in 1777, Edmé-François Jomard trained as an engineer and joined the French expedition to Egypt while still a young man. The experience shaped his life’s work: he became known as a cartographer, archaeologist, and scholar deeply involved in studying and describing Egypt.
Jomard is especially remembered for his major role in the Description de l’Égypte, the vast publication that brought together research from the expedition and helped introduce many readers in Europe to the history, geography, and monuments of Egypt. He was also a member of the Institut d’Égypte founded during the expedition.
After his return to France, he remained active in intellectual and public life, with work that linked scholarship, geography, and cultural exchange between France and Egypt. He died in Paris in 1862, leaving a legacy tied to early Egyptology, cartography, and the preservation of knowledge from a remarkable period of exploration.