jean-françois champollion

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Jean-François Champollion

born Dec. 23, 1790, Figeac, France died March 4, 1832, Paris French scholar. He played a major role in the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Champollion was a linguistic prodigy who had immersed himself in Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic as well as Greek and Latin by age

Jean-François Champollion

After study of the Rosetta Stone and other texts, Champollion demonstrated decisively in Summary of the Hieroglyphic System of the Ancient Egyptians (1825) that a phonetic value could be assigned to some hieroglyphs. He became curator of the Louvre's Egyptian collection (1826) and conducted an archaeological expedition to Egypt (1828-30). See also Egyptian language

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je-an-fran-ço-is cham-pol-li-on