michael ventris

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Definition von michael ventris im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

v. born July 12, 1922, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, Eng. died Sept. 6, 1956, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire British architect and cryptographer. At age 14 he heard a lecture on the continuing mystery of Linear B script (see Linear A and Linear B) and resolved to decipher it. In 1952 he determined that Linear B was Greek in its oldest known form, dating from 1400-1200 BC. He collaborated with John Chadwick (1920-98) on Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956), published a few weeks after his own death in an auto accident

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Michael George Francis Ventris

v. born July 12, 1922, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, Eng. died Sept. 6, 1956, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire British architect and cryptographer. At age 14 he heard a lecture on the continuing mystery of Linear B script (see Linear A and Linear B) and resolved to decipher it. In 1952 he determined that Linear B was Greek in its oldest known form, dating from 1400-1200 BC. He collaborated with John Chadwick (1920-98) on Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956), published a few weeks after his own death in an auto accident

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Mi·chael Ven·tris