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====== Edwin Smith ======

Edwin Smith (1822 – April 27, 1906) was an American dealer and collector of antiquities who gave his name to an Ancient Egyptian medical papyrus, the [[Edwin Smith Papyrus]].

===== Biography =====

[[Edwin Smith]] was born in [[Bridgeport]], [[Connecticut]], and lived in [[Egypt]] during the latter half of the 19th century. In [[1862]] he came temporarily into possession of a medical papyrus which was sold by its Egyptian owner to [[Georg Ebers]] in 1873 and published by Ebers in 1875. It was thus best known as the Ebers Papyrus.

In 1862 he also purchased the papyrus which came to bear his name, from a dealer called Mustapha Aga at Luxor.

Smith's knowledge of hieratic was not sufficient to enable him to translate the papyrus, a task which was undertaken by James Henry Breasted, aided by Arno B. Luckhardt, a professor of physiology, and led to the publication of the translation in 1930.

Edwin Smith died in 1906.