Cladius Labib was an Egyptian Egyptologist. His family was known for copying church books. He used to accompany his father to the Al-Mouharak Monastery to learn Coptic

Coptic language

Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...

 with the monks. He was the youngest of three brothers, the eldest being Pahor and the middle being Tadros. Labib learned Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood...

 from the French Egyptologists and was the second Egyptian to learn this ancient language (the first was Ahmad Kamal

Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist)

- Research :He trained under the German Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch.He was a curator at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and a staff member of the Supreme Council of Antiquities...

).