French scholar, born in Paris on the 18th of July 1813. From 1840 till 1855 he was assistant professor, and from 1855 till his death professor of Greek literature in the Faculté; des Lettres at Paris University. In 1854 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions and in 1873 of the Conseil supérieur de linstruction publique. He was a voluminous writer, a sound and discerning scholar, and his influence was largely responsible for the revival of the study of classical philology in France. His most important works were Essai sur lhistoire de la critique chez les Grecs (1849), Notions élémentaires de grammaire comparée (1852), Apollonius Dyscole, essai sur lhistoire des théories grammaticales dans lantiquité (1854), Mémoires de littérature ancienne (1862), Mémoires dhistoire ancienne et de philologie (1863), Les Papyrus grecs du Musée du Louvre et de la Bibliothèque Impériale (1865), Études sur les traités publics chez les Grecs et les Romains (1866), LHellénisme en France (1869), La Littérature grecque (1890). He was also the author of Observations et réflexions sur le développement de lintelligence et du langage chez les enfants (1879). Egger died in Paris on the 1st of September 1885.