On this #internationalwomensday, we would like to put a spotlight on one of the few female Egyptologists in the early history of Belgian Egyptology: Marcelle Werbrouck. #pyramidsandprogress #IWD2020 #trowelblazers 1/10

Marcella Joanna Gabriella Werbrouck was born on 23 May 1889 in Antwerp. Her father and brother were officers in the Belgian army and they fled to Paris when war broke out in 1914. During the war, Marcelle was a nurse for the Red Cross and worked at the Pasteur Institute. 2/10

While in Paris, she took courses at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France and came in touch with the history of ancient civilizations under the guidance of well-known Egyptologists such as Georges Bénédite and Gaston Maspero. 3/10

After the war, Marcelle returned to Belgium and went to the Société des Cours d'Art et d'Archéologie de Bruxelles. While she was a student, professor Jean Capart was struck by her talent and from the 1920's onwards Capart and Werbrouck started to collaborate. 4/10

In 1922 she obtained her master's degree in History of Art. In the meantime, Capart instructed her to have a look at the similarities in the iconography of the so-called 'weepers'-scene on display at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leyden and those in Theban tombs. 5/10

With her study 'Les pleureuses dans l'Egypte ancienne' she subsequently she passed her viva in the History of Art at the age of 36 and got her Doctor's title in 1925 [...] 6/10

Want to read more about her further career paths in the following years?

Take a look at our colleague Jean-Michel Bruffaerts' 'Marcelle Werbrouck Ou l’égyptologie Belge Au Féminin’ over here: https://www.academia.edu/37239995/Marcelle_Werbrouck_ou_l_%C3%A9gyptologie_belge_au_f%C3%A9minin 7/10

Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth/Egyptologisch Genootschap Koningin Elisabeth Archives http://www.aere-egke.be/  8/10

Bruffaerts, J-Mi. ‘Marcelle Werbrouck Ou l’égyptologie Belge Au Féminin’. In Sur Le Chemin Du Mouseion d’Alexandrie. Études Offertes à Marie-Cécile Bruwier, 43–71. Les Cahiers Égypte Nilotique et Méditérranéenne 19. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, 2018. 9/10

'WERBROUCK, Marcelle', Warren R. Dawson and Morris L. Bierbrier (eds), Who was who in Egyptology, London: Egypt Exploration Society, fourth revised edition, 2012, p. 572-573. 10/10