Mohareb Todros

Mohareb Todros followed in the footsteps of his father Boulos Todros (date of birth unknown, † 1898), who was consular agent of Prussia in Luxor and antiquities dealer.^[2] In contrast to his father, who had no German, he was fluent in German and English. The Todros family were Copts.

German visitors to Egypt in 1888 and 1894 recounted that Todros – as German consul in Luxor – very kindly welcomed them in his residence. The host showed his collection of antiquities (which were also for sale) exhibited in two rooms, as well as his prized guestbook (German: "das Fremdenbuch"), started by his father. It contained photos and memories of distinguished guests, among whom prominent Egyptologists.^{[3] [4]}

Boulos Todros and Mohareb Todros acquired and sold Coptic manuscripts from the library of the White Monastery near Sohag, shortly after Gaston Maspero’s visits to the Monastery in 1885–1886.^[5] Boulos Todros was in close contact with Maspero, supplying him many antiquities for the Egyptian Museum in Boulaq. In 1873 he sold an important medical papyrus to Georg Ebers, that became known as the Ebers Papyrus.^[6]

Two nested coffins containing the mummy of a man from Akhmim (Late Period), now in the Washington State History Museum, were purchased in 1891 by Allen C. Mason from Mohareb Todros.^[7]

Towards of after the end of Todros' life, his antiquities business was taken over by his son Zaki Mohareb Todros.